Gregg, Josiah

(1806–50) trader, author; born in Overton County, Tenn. He made frequent journeys along the Santa Fe Trail (1831–41) and wrote a frontier classic, Commerce of the Prairies (1844). He served in the Mexican War and died of exposure after crossing the Coast Range of California.

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