[Return to Bonneville introductory page] The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving On-line Edition Table of Contents Introductory Notice Chapter 1 State of the fur trade of the Rocky Mountains-- American enterprises--General Ashley and his associates--Sublette, a famous leader--Yearly rendezvous among the mountains--Stratagems and dangers of the trade--Bands of trappers--Indian banditti--Crows and Blackfeet--Mountaineers-- Traders of the Far West--Character and hab ...

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The Topic: Mountain Men Also visit a companion webpage to this site called Mountain Men Links and find connections to almost a hundred mountain men biography websites. They are organized alphabetically from John David Albert to Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth. Easier - Mountain men were fur traders and trappers who explored much of the Rocky Mountain regions. Mountain men like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith mapped the Rockies as they searched fo ...

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William H. Ashley's 1825 Rocky Mountain Papers Introduction William H. Ashley, with his partner Andrew Henry, owned a fur trading company based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Prior to the period covered by these papers, he had lost a fortune in an ill-fated attempt to establish a trapping business on the upper Missouri river. His new plan was trap the region to the south, just over the divide. The previous year, an Ashley-Henry party led by Jedediah Smith had crossed the continental divide at what ...