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		Irving's Bonneville On-line ^Votes:0 Irving's Bonneville On-line [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 habits of the trapper Chapter 2 Departure from Fort Osage--Modes of transportation--Pack- horses--Wagons--Walker and Cerre; their characters--Buoyant feelings on launching upon the prairies--Wild equipments of the trappers--Their gambols and antics--Difference of character between the Amer Read More Go to Site


		John's Word Search Puzzles: Mountain Men ^Votes:0 This page has been accessed times since moving to this site April 24, 1998. Go Back to John's Word Search Puzzles Read More Go to Site

		Mountain Men ^Votes:0 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 for and trapped beaver. Harder - Lewis and Clark's 'Corps of Discovery' (1804-'05) brought back reports of the wild game and fur-bearing animals in the Rocky Mountains. Several fur companies were interested in harvesting these resources. Finding few Native Americans interested in trapping, these companies hired frontiersmen to Read More Go to Site

		MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE ^Votes:0 This website is an on-line Research Center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, and mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men. About this Project. Library - Books on the Mountain Men, including their Diaries, Narratives, and Letters. Archive - Fur Trade Era Business Records. Gallery - Artwork of the Fur Trade era, Portraits of Mountain Men, maps and other images. Museum - Pictures and information on Period Artifacts. Bibliographical Resources. Miscellaneous Items of Interest. Search this Web Site for Keywords. E-Mail Discussion Group Links to Related Sites. What's New. This web site is sponsored by members of the American Mountain Men. Read More Go to Site

		Mountain Men Page ^Votes:0 &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Bibliography Created by Emily Zimmerman as a part of the University of Virginia's American Studies project on Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land . This site is optimized for Netscape 3.0 Read More Go to Site

		William H. Ashley's 1825 Rocky Mountain Papers ^Votes:0 William H. Ashley's 1825 Rocky Mountain Papers 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 came to be known as South Pass and found the valley of the Green river to be rich with beaver. Consequently, the remainder of Ashley's fur company left St. Louis and made their way up the Platte. Ashley left two documents describing the events of 1825: On Read More Go to Site

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