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 ...
They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that flourished in North ... In 1825 the first annual trappers’ gathering was held near McKinnon, Wyoming. Called the Rendavouze ...