Back East, the fashion of silk hats for men spelled the end for fur-trapping mountain men. When felt made from beaver skins was no longer popular, beaver trapping as a way of life ended.

Visitors, or flat landers as the mountain men call them, can also buy handmade rifles, leather goods, and fur hats and clothing. Retired Marine Mike "Hatman" Robinson hand sews hats out of all ...

Several tents at the camp offer items such as beads, crafts, clothing, belts, knives, leather pouches, pottery, fur hats and just about anything else from the early 1800s.

In 1825 William Henry Ashley and a group of mountain men made a roughly 800-mile trip on packhorses and ... known for his short but successful foray into the fur trading ... making men’s hats.

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 the… ...

GREEN RIVER — In presentations throughout the day for over 100 students attending the Green River High School’s Wyoming History class, mountain men and the fur trade were the topics ...