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A blast from the past came back to the Teton County Fair Grounds in Jackson the week leading up to Memorial Day.
Carson Pate maintains an early 19th Century lifestyle as a modern day mountain man. Cache Valley resident Carson Pate lives every day like it’s the 1800s. As a modern day mountain man, Carson ...
A total of 40 traders and 16 campers were at the seventh annual Smoking Waters Mountain Man Rendezvous.
SEQUIM — An English gentleman, many mighty mountain men and a couple of pirates at Slab Camp grounds south of Sequim celebrated the fur trading days of the early 1800s. The event Saturday and Sunday, ...
PARKVILLE, Mo. — A group of men, recreating an expedition from the 1800s, spent Thursday evening docked along the Missouri River in Parkville. Gerry Messmer and six other mountain men are on … ...
The 100-member Spring Mountain Free Trappers are set to bring history to life Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 during the group's annual Mountain Men Rendezvous event at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
Historic Napa home built by 19th-century mountain man goes on the market for $2.1 million James Clyman built a home on Redwood Road in Napa in the mid-1800s after a life exploring the Old West ...
This is part one of a two-part series on the lives and times of dwellers in the Como Mountain Man Rendezvous community in south Park County. Part two is to be published Sunday. PARK COUNTY – At ...
They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that flourished in North America from roughly 1800 to 1840. Like the better known reenactors of the Civil War, they’re dentists or ...
A tale of two 1800s mountain men sparring over the love of a good woman through the lens of 1978 sports, music and beer kept visitors to the Longview Museum of Fine Arts rolling in laughter on ...
The big picture: Beckwourth was one of a handful of Black explorers and trappers who roamed the Mountain West in the early and mid-1800s, sharing campfires with the likes of Jim Bridger and Kit ...
The group's goal is to preserve the lifestyle of the mountain men, from a period of time in the first half of the 1800’s when everything was done by hand out in the wilderness.