Jedediah Smith
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Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States,
Life portrait, said to have been drawn by a friend, from memory, after Smith's death
Lewis and Clark
Regions of the Missouri River Watershed
Arikara warrior Bodmer (1840–1843)
Jim Bridger
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James Felix Bridger was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as
Jedediah Smith
…trade expedition into the Blackfeet territory. Smith was able to capture a good quantity of beaver pelts before being repulsed by hostile Blackfeet. Jim Bridger served as a riverboat pilot on the Powder River during the profitable expedition. In the four years of western fur trapping, Smith, Jackson, and Sublette…
Bridger, c. 1876
Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone
Great Salt Lake
Bridger's Pass