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Could Jedediah Smith read?
I know that Jedediah Smith was in the movie Night at the Museum, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm mean the read one, born in 1798 or 1799 in New York. He became a famous hunter, trapper, fur trader, trail blazer, explorer, cow boy, etc. I know that some men could read then, but not many. Well, he was born in NYC, but he had a coyboy's job. So, does anyone know is he could actually read? Thank you!
Yes, he could read. It is known that he carried a bible with him and that he was a practicing Methodist. Other general info is a s follows:
Jedediah S. Smith (1799-1831), trapper, fur trader, and explorer in the American West, was one of the most skillful of the mountain men, although most of his accomplishments were recognized only recently. Jedediah Smith's activities in the West occurred between 1822 and 1831, a period of rapid American penetration into the Rocky Mountain area and of phenomenal growth in American fur trading and trapping. He was the first reported American to travel overland to California, the first to cross the Sierra Nevada from the west, the first to travel across the Great Basin, north and south as well as east and west, the first to travel north up the California coast to Oregon, and the first to provide a usable description of South Pass.
The fourth of 12 children, Smith was born on Jan. 6, 1799. As a child, he roamed the wooded hills in southwestern New York, and when he was 12, the family moved into Erie County, Pa. From there they moved to the Western Reserve in northern Ohio. Jedediah's activities between 1816 and 1821 are unknown to historians. One author suggests that he got a reasonably good education and then became a clerk on a Lake Erie freighter, learning some business methods and perhaps even meeting Canadian trappers and fur traders. But this is mere conjecture.
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