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Jedediah Smith

1799 - 1831

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Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century. After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile (32 km)-wide South Pass as the dominant route across the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail. Coming from modest family background, Smith traveled to St. Louis and joined William H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jedediah Smith has received more than 1,656,964 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jedediah Smith is the 200th most popular explorer (up from 204th in 2019), the 2,815th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,935th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Explorer.

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  • 54.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jedediah Smith ranks 200 out of 405. Before him are Daniel Boone, Hendrik Brouwer, James Bruce, Francisco de Montejo, John Rolfe, and Helmer Hanssen. After him are Mark Sykes, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Jacob van Heemskerck, Ohthere of Hålogaland, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Jedediah Smith ranks 22. Before him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Countess of Ségur, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Vincenz Priessnitz, and Almeida Garrett. After him are Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, René Caillié, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, François-Auguste Biard, Ferenc Gyulay, and Ludwig Rellstab. Among people deceased in 1831, Jedediah Smith ranks 31. Before him are Princess Louise of Denmark, Henri Grégoire, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, James Hoban, and Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony. After him are Jean-Louis Pons, Henry Maudslay, Ryōkan, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Franz Krommer, and Vasily Golovnin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jedediah Smith ranks 2,815 out of 18,182. Before him are Allison Janney (1959), Richard Farnsworth (1920), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Arnold Gesell (1880), Cynthia Nixon (1966), and Sung Kang (1972). After him are Lea Thompson (1961), Ernest King (1878), Helen Parkhurst (1886), Chico Marx (1887), John L. Sullivan (1858), and Francis Preserved Leavenworth (1858).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Jedediah Smith ranks 14. Before him are Jim Bridger (1804), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Don Walsh (1931), Jimmie Angel (1899), George W. De Long (1844), and Daniel Boone (1734). After him are Chris McCandless (1968), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), William Clark (1770), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Meriwether Lewis (1774), and John C. Frémont (1813).

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