RT Web Page DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 827210439 LA English UL https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=4C957FE0-9EFF-4C18-9BB3-884E1C46AD6A T1 Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West A1 Morgan, Dale L., PB UNP - Bison Books PP Lincoln YR 2013 SN 9780803245952 0803245955 AB In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, "a wilderness," he wrote, "of two thousand miles diameter." During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, "the mild and Christian young man" blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands.