South Pass City Fremont Wyoming United States
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Jedediah Smith's discovery of the South Pass opens a gateway to the Far West in 1824; he has risen quickly among the ranks of the mountain men.
John C. Frémont surveys the Oregon Trail up the Platte River to South Pass, beginning in 1842.
The American soldier-explorer is sponsored by his influential father-in-law, Senator Thomas Hart Benton.