Friday, July 11 and Saturday, July 12. All indications are the event will be well attended One of the featured speakers at ...

When an 18-year-old Joe Meek arrived in the wilderness of Wyoming in 1829, the greenhorn had to toughen up fast to survive ...

The Sweetwater County Museum Foundation is hosting a special daylong outing to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first ...

Mountain Man Rendezvous in Riverton isn’t just held near a historic rendezvous site, it’s the actual site. It's where Jim ...

Hugh was a perfect fit, for he was a rugged Mountain Man, fur trapper, tracker, and hunter extraordinaire. But all of that would pale compared to what was getting ready to happen.

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 ...

In the 1840s the fashion for men’s beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man.

The blast came from black powder rifles, courtesy of local mountain man enthusiasts dressed in period-accurate frontier attire, similar to what Ogden and other trappers might have worn.

Charlton Heston and Brian Keith star in this film about the closing days of the fur-trapper era of the wild west. THE MOUNTAIN MEN features a fine supporting cast, which includes Stephen Macht ...

Maps: Trapper trails to the Sisk-ke-dee: some of the more important routes used by the mountain men in exploiting the fur field of the transmountain country, 1810-1843 -- The far West realm of the ...

Penelope Pace, 2, eagerly leads her grandpa towards the cannon shoot competition held by the Sapphire Mountain Men at the Wildhorse Rendezvous, Sunday afternoon.