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Lewis and Clark. Smith was born in Jericho, now Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, on January 6, 1799, [3] [a] [4] to Jedediah Smith I, a general store owner from New Hampshire, and Sally Strong, both of whom were descended entirely from families that came to New England from England during the Puritan emigration between 1620 and 1640.
[10]: 144, 148 Lower Cimarron Spring on the riverbank was an important watering and camping spot. [11] In 1831 Comanche Indians killed Jedediah Smith (a famous hunter, trapper, and explorer) on the Santa Fe Trail near the Cimarron River. His body was never recovered.
The park was named after explorer Jedediah Smith, who was the first American to travel, by land, from the Mississippi River to California in 1826, passing through the area of the future park. [4] The original Tolowa people depended on the resources of the Smith River and the redwood forests. They used the forest for shelter, tools, and cultural ...
John William Kelley (born March 9, 1963) is an American serial killer and rapist. Following his 2012 arrest for the 1986 rape-murder of a hitchhiker in Ben Lomond, California, Kelley additionally confessed to murdering a couple two years later in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, near Crescent City. [2]
The remains of a man who vanished at a Michigan music festival more than six years ago have finally been found — just 100 yards from where he had camped, according to his family.
Mountain man Jedediah Smith was probably killed here or near here on May 27, 1831, by Comanches. [5] The Daughters of the American Revolution placed a historic marker near the spring in 1907. In 1914, a series of floods on the Cimarron River began to significantly alter the topography of the area, eventually placing the location within a much ...
Authorities released photos of the mat, the jewelry and images of the dead woman’s tattoos. But they have not said how the woman died. Meanwhile, they have arrested John Tyrrell, a 46-year-old ...
A suspect has been identified in connection with the killing of a man at a Montana campsite whose death was initially reported by a 911 caller as a possible bear attack, authorities said. A friend ...