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Jedediah Strong Smith was an outstanding explorer, trapper, trader, and devout Christian who came to Utah with Wm. H. Ashley's expedition in 1824 and began the first successful overland journey through Utah to the Pacific coast from this vicinity on August 22, 1826. Substantially the same route was later followed by the main highway to Los Angeles.
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