The roar of the grizzly, war cries of the Blackfeet, and the lonesome song of the wind ushered 18-year-old Joe Meek to a ...

In 1825 the first annual trappers’ gathering was held near McKinnon, Wyoming. Called the Rendavouze Creek Rendezvous, it was a boisterous, multiday affair—a chance for mountain men to sell ...

Kit Carson’s adventurous life started like many of the mountain men. Upon leaving his Kentucky home at age 17, Carson joined a trading expedition in 1826. He roamed the West as a trapper ...