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 ...

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, they’re dentists or ...

History Channel show airs Sundays at 9 p.m. Eastern Tom Oar is one of six mountain men on the show He makes leather moccasins using Native American techniques YAAK, Mont. — Tom Oar has been ...

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 original mountain men typically had beards and were dressed in leathers and fur. Many of the 2015 Rendezvous participants are similarly dressed. Club member Mike Keesner joined the trappers ...

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 ...