This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the …

By the early 1800s, however, they realized that the Indians could not (or would not) produce enough furs to satisfy the demand for fur in Europe and America. The companies involved in …

William Sublette (1798–1845) was a fur trapper, pioneer, and mountain man who, with his brothers after 1823, became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company (and later one of …

Dec 28, 2020 · These are just some of the words used to describe the mountain men (also commonly referred to as fur trappers) who rambled all over the Rocky Mountains — but also …

Green River Rendezvous was an annual event in the 1830s. Mountain Men, Trappers, Travelers and Indians all gathered in a valley "below the Green" river and bartered, traded, …

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 …

Jan 24, 2025 · They were the pathfinders of yore, lovers of nature, and fiercely independent. They lived and roamed the mountains and back-country of America from the 1800s to about the …

LATE TRAPPERS AND THE FAR WEST EXPLORERS [ca. 1825-1850] Introduction From 1825 to 1850, trappers were very active in the Far West, west of the continental divide. Between …

Oct 20, 2017 · The Trapper’s Bride by Alfred Jacob Miller. There was no shortage of ways to go to the “go under” in the Far West during the heyday of the Mountain Men. In 1856 Antoine …

The beaver fur trade in Colorado lasted from about 1800 to 1840. Beaver trapping ended in the late 1830s with a fashion change in Europe when the beaver felt hat declined in favor of silk …