The peak of the Rocky Mountain fur trade ran for a very short period of time, from 1820 to 1840. This was the time that Americans became more interested in the politics and geography beyond the Mississippi River; it was a time of expansion and experimentation.

The companies involved in the fur trade began in the 1820s to employ their own hunters and trappers. These hunters and trappers lived year-round in the mountains, close to their work.

Nov 20, 2008 · Through the mid-1820's, the fur brigades of Provost, Robidoux and Becknell repeatedly worked the Green River until larger trapping expeditions invaded this choice beaver country. Such trapping parties were directed by the future Fur …

May 2, 2022 · Jean Baptiste Chalifoux started out as a young fur trapper in French Canada in the early nineteenth century and moved throughout western North America, hunting the era’s most valuable commodities. The waning fur trade motivated Chalifoux to seek new sources of adventure and income.

Nov 8, 2014 · In the 1820s and 1830s, what’s now western Wyoming was at the center of the fur trade of the northern Rocky Mountains. Indians, trappers and their suppliers met each summer at a big trade fair called rendezvous, where trappers exchanged their season’s beaver pelts for hardware, whiskey and supplies.

The last fur expedition of the 1820s in west-central Colorado came in 1829, when George Yount, with an outfit of thirty men, trapped the Grand and Green Rivers. The fur trade in western Colorado boomed when William Ashley opened the Green River country in …

The fur trappers arrived at the Three Forks on April 3, 1810, and a trapping party was attacked on April 12th. Five trappers were killed. The rest of the party forted up behind a log barricade.

This exhibit offers a broad overview of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountains and specifically the Green River Valley between 1820 and 1840. Displays include trappers’ equipment on loan from the American Mountain Men Association, a diorama of a Rendezvous scene, flintlock and percussion guns from the late 1700s and early 1800s, and tools ...

By the late 1820s and early 1830s, following the trappers’ rendezvous, several permanent posts were constructed in Colorado. Generally located along major waterways, these early posts provided permanent locations for trade in animal skins.

Fur trappers, also known as Mountain Men, were the first white men to enter Cache Valley and the surrounding areas [1]. Ephraim Logan and Peter Skene Ogden, the names of whom still mark the areas they explored, entered as early as 1824 [2].