Ten Who Dared: Jedediah Smith (Part 2)

Duration: 2000 Feet

Creator: BBC Television and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Time-Life Television Inc.

Complete Record: Jedediah Smith, the first man to cross America overland, was a trapper who blazed and mapped the trails that thousands were to follow as the nation grew westward. Smith was in search of beaver for economic reasons and it was this same economic demand that helped open the frontier.