MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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Jedediah Smith
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Jim Beckwourth
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Hugh Glass
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Meriwether Lewis
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -1. John Colter. Virginia-born John Colter first answered the call of the West in 1804, when he took off on a journey to the Pacific Ocean and back as part of Lewis and Clark’s famed Corps of Discovery.
Detailed explanation-3: -A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s).
Detailed explanation-4: -mountain man, any of the pioneers of the North American Rocky Mountain West who went to that region first as fur trappers. Attracted by the beaver in virgin streams, the trappers became the explorers of the Far West. The most experienced trappers were the French, who were joined by American and Spanish fur traders.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hoping to cash in on consumer demand, trappers headed to the mountains and streams of the West. These mountain men provided the United States with a source of commerce as they connected the young republic to the lucrative international fur trade.