and frontiersmen led the American expansion in the first years of the 1800s. The best became legendary, like John Colter, Kit Carson, and Jim Bridger. Mountain men roamed the wilds alone or in ...

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 ...

The first Black person known to set foot in Utah was a mountain man whose gift for telling stories ... the Mountain West in the early and mid-1800s, sharing campfires with the likes of Jim Bridger ...