A real-life historical figure in American Primeval is Jim Bridger, played by Shea Whigham. Whigham’s character Jim Bridger is an important one in the saga. He is a mountain man who runs Fort ...

The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the California coast and told that if he can't do it, the territory will be lost to ...

to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut.