Jedediah Smith
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Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States,
Life portrait, said to have been drawn by a friend, from memory, after Smith's death
Lewis and Clark
Regions of the Missouri River Watershed
Arikara warrior Bodmer (1840–1843)
Mountain man
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A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting, fishing and trapping. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 t
Jedediah Smith
…Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century. After 75 years of obscurity following…
Jim Bridger, one of the most famous mountain men
Fur trading at Fort Nez Percé in 1841
The Trapper's Bride shows a trapper, Francois, paying $600 in trade goods for an Indian woman to be his wife, ca. 1837, by Alfred Jacob Miller.
Seth Kinman, a notable 19th century mountain man who claimed to have hunted down around 800 grizzly bears