Early report on Jedediah Smith's explorations in the West...

Item # 702738

November 03, 1827

NATIONAL GAZETTE & LITERARY REGISTER, Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1827 This is one of the desired reports collectors seek in early newspapers, being an early mention of a then-obscure name that would become well-known years later.
Page 2 has over three-quarters of a column taken up with a report of Jedediah Smith, an American transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the North American West, and the Southwest during the early 19th century.
After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile-wide South Pass as the dominant point of crossing the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.

There is a prefacing paragraph introducing: "...a letter written by Jedediah S. Smith, who has been for several years engaged in hunting & trapping in the Upper Missouri & who has visited that extensive barren country on the West not heretofore explored..." and what follows is Smith's lengthy and very detailed reporting on his explorations.
Rare to find such extensive & early mention of him.
Four pages, very nice condition.