35-xx-xx ep06Jedediah Strong Smith

Frontier Fighters! Epic narratives of those fearless wanderers and adventurers who first broke the trails of the Old West. Among these heroic explorers and pathfinders, the great figure of Jedidiah Strongsmith

is one of the most prominent of the frontier giants in their conquest of the Western America wilderness. With his rifle in one hand and his precious Bible in the other, Jedidiah Smith brought youth, courage and faith into the mighty struggle for an empire.

May 20th, 1823, St. Louis, Missouri. Listen to this advertisement in the Missouri Republican Fitzpatrick. You too, Sublette. I'm all ears, Pat. Oh, where did I take this cotton out of my ears? I've got the misery, man.

Go ahead. The subscriber wishes to engage 50 young men of intelligence and courage to follow the Missouri River to its source. There to be employed for one, two, or three years. signed William Henry Ashley. I saw the same writing last year.

I wonder what this Ashley once done in the Upper Missouri. Fur-craping. A wrecking beaver. For dude's hands. I vote boys recall on Mr. Ashley in the body. Anyone know where he lives? I do, Smith, in a big mansion.

I answered his last year's writing but I got there too late. I have an idea you'll have better luck this time. You lead Fitzpatrick to the Ashley Mansion and then the Upper Missouri. Thomas Fitzpatrick, William L. Sublette, James Climan, and Jedda Dias Strong Smith joined Ashley's fur traders.

On June 2nd, 1823, near the present boundary between North and South Dakota. Or tribal with private dispense, a rickory is kept mainly. Smith! Oh, Smith! Everything the wounded. As of many wounded? Him? Our losses are very heavy.