Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Smith's Death

Born (Birthday) January 6, 1799

Death Date May 27, 1831

Age of Death 32 years

Cause of Death N/A

Place of Death Ulysses, Kansas, United States

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The first U.S. citizen to cross the Sierra Nevada, Great Basin, and use the California coast to reach the Oregon Country.

He worked as a fur trapper for General William H. Ashley.

He was the first white man to travel through the Salt Lake frontier, the Colorado River, and the Mojave Desert into California.

How did Jedediah Smith die?

Historians believe that in the Spring of May 1831, while searching for water on what is now known as the Santa Fe Trail, Jedediah Smith was killed by a Comanche war party.