Trapper: Enterprising young man -- Set poles for the mountains -- Hivernan -- Missouri legion -- Hugh Glass and the grizzly -- Booshway: Blanket chief -- Battle of Pierre's Hole -- Shot in the back -- ...
Four years later, in 1830, Bridger and several other trappers would purchase the Rocky Mountain Fur Company from Bridger's former employer William Ashley. Bridger's involvement in the fur trade would ...
He could cross unknown lands without a map, sense direction where others saw only wilderness, and leave behind trails no one else could follow. Jim Bridger’s story feels less like history and more ...