Jedediah Smith was the first American to enter California overland from the east and first to cross the Great Basin Desert and return east, overland from California.

Jedediah and his party of trappers spent the winter of 1823-24 with a band of Crow Indians who told him how reach Utath's Green River. In mid March 1824, his company rediscovered the South Pass it was a passage to the Northwest through Wyoming and descended into the Green River area for the spring hunt. In July 1825, Jedediah attended the first Mountain Man rendezvous at Henry's Fork then accompanied William Ashley to St. Louis with the season's bounty of furs. In route downriver, Ashl

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