Who are these guys? 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 ...
One of Jedediah Smith’s goals was to "be the first to view a country on which the eyes of a white man had never gazed and to ...
Mountain men roamed the wilds alone or in small groups ... Also, the insatiable fur trade demand in Europe and the East Coast drew men West, especially for beaver pelts. Wiped out in Europe ...