fur trappers, guides, and frontiersmen led the American expansion in the first years of the 1800s. The best became legendary, like John Colter, Kit Carson, and Jim Bridger. Mountain men roamed the ...

Who are these guys? They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that flourished in North America from roughly 1800 to 1840. Like the better known reenactors of the Civil War ...

A spring tradition for history buffs, modern-day mountain men and those curious about what life was like during the apex of ...

Joseph Harrison Dickson was one of the first “mountain men” whose fur-hunting journeys ... other man was responsible for initiating the fur trade on the Yellowstone.” Dickson also has ...

In 1825 William Henry Ashley and a group of mountain men made a roughly 800-mile trip on packhorses and then boats northeast across what is now Wyoming and on into Montana and North Dakota.

Fur trading was one of our nation’s first and most important industries. Most of the early exploration of the northern portions of the New World was carried out by trappers and traders as they ...

The Green River Mountain Men is a nonprofit organization of men and women dedicated to educating the community about the pre-1840s fur trade era. For more information, contact Vickie Shurr at ...

Like Missouri’s earliest explorers — the French and the Spanish and mountain men on their way ... man may be long gone, but fur is still big business, and local trappers who harvest certain ...

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband ...