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==List==
==List==
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Revision as of 00:37, 16 March 2015

This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersman of the North American frontier known as "Mountain Men" from 1807–1848.

See also Mountain Men, explorers, trappers, guides

List

{he lived for almost one hundred years ! style="width:7%;"| Years active ! style="width:12%;"| Country of origin ! style="width:50%;"| Comments ! style="width:2%;"| Ref. |- valign="top" | James "Grizzly" Adams | 1812–1860 | 1849–1856 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | John Albert | 1806–1899 | 1834–1847 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | William Henry Ashley | 1778–1838 | 1822–1828 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Jim Baker | 1818–1898 | 1839–1873 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | James Beckwourth | 1798–1866 | 1824–1866 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Charles Bent | 1799–1847 | 1828–1846 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | William Bent | 1809–1869 | 1826–1869 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Thomas Biggs | 1812–1855 | 1835–1855 | | | |- valign="top" | Black Beaver | 1806–1880 | | | | |- valign="top" | Jim Bridger | 1804–1881 | 1822–1868 |  United States | | [1] |- valign="top" | Joseph Bissonet dit Bijou | 1778–1836 | 1812–1836 |  France | |[2] |- valign="top" | Joseph Bissonette | 1818–1894 | | | | |- valign="top" | Benjamin Bonneville | 1796–1878 | 1832–1835 |  France | | |- valign="top" | Kootenay Brown | 1839–1916 | 1862–1910 |  Ireland | | |- valign="top" | Robert Campbell | 1804–1879 | 1825–1835 |  Ireland | | |- valign="top" | Kit Carson | 1809–1868 | 1825–1868 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Jean Baptiste Charbonneau | 1805–1866 | 1829–1866 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | James Clyman | 1792–1880 | 1823–1848 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | John Colter | 1774–1813 | 1803–1810 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | William Craig | 1807–1869 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Alexander Culbertson | 1809–1879 | 1833–1879 | | | |- valign="top" | Andrew Drips | 1789–1860 | | | | |- valign="top" | George Drouillard | 1774–1810 | 1804–1810 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | George W. Ebbert | 1810–1890 | 1823–1836 |  United States | | |- valign="top"

| Warren Angus Ferris | 1810–1873 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Jacques Raphael "Jocko" Finlay | 1768–1828 | 1806–1828 |  Canada | | |- valign="top" | William O. "LeGros" Fallon | d. 1848 | 1826–1848 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Thomas "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick | 1799–1854 | | | | |- valign="top" | Henry Fraeb | d. 1841 | 1829–1841 | | | |- valign="top" | Lucien Fontenelle | 1800–1840 | 1819–1840 | | | |- valign="top" | John Charles Fremont | 1813–1890 | 1838–1849 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Andrew Garcia | | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Hugh Glass | 1780–1833 | 1800–1833 | | | |- valign="top" | Antoine Godin | 1805–1836 | 1817–1836 |  Canada | | |- valign="top" | Miles Goodyear | 1817–1849 | 1836–1847 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Isaac Graham | 1800–1863 | 1830–1840 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Caleb Greenwood | 1763–1850 | 1810–1834 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | William Thomas Hamilton | 1822–1908 | | | |[3] |- valign="top" | Moses Harris | 1800–1849 | | | |[4] |- valign="top" | Boone Helm | 1828–1864 | 1850–1864 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Major Andrew Henry | 1775–1832 | 1809–1824 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Antoine Janis | 1822–1890 | 1836–1858 | | | |- valign="top" | Seth Kinman | 1815–1888 | 1849–1864 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | James Kirker | 1793–1852 | 1822–1849 |  Ireland | | |- valign="top" | Zenas Leonard | 1809–1857 | 1831–1857 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Antoine Leroux | 1803-1861 | 1822-1861 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Liver-Eating Johnson | 1824–1900 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Ben Lilly | 1856–1936 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Manuel Lisa | 1772–1820 | 1789–1820 | | | |- valign="top" | Lancaster Lupton | 1807–1885 | 1835–1844 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Mariano Medina | 1812–1878 | | | |[1] |- valign="top" | Joseph Meek | 1810–1875 | 1828–1850 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Stephen Meek | 1805–1889 | 1827–1889 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | James "Bear" Moore | 1850–1924 | | | |[5] |- valign="top" | Robert "Doc" Newell | 1807–1869 | 1829–1869 | | | |- valign="top" | George Nidever | 1802–1883 | 1830–1853 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Peter Skene Ogden | 1794–1854 | 1809–1847 |  Canada | | |- valign="top" | James Ohio Pattie | 1804–1851? | 1824–1830 |  United States | |[6][7] |-valign="top" |Etienne Provost | 1785-1850 | 1822-1830 |  Canada | |[8] |- valign="top" | Osborne Russell | 1814–1892 | 1834–1845 |  United States | |[9] |- valign="top" | George Ruxton | 1821–1848 | |  United Kingdom | | |- valign="top" | Rufus Sage | 1817–1893 | 1841–1844 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Jedediah Smith | 1799–1831 | 1822–1831 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | "Blackfoot" John Smith | 1810–18?? | | | | |- valign="top" | Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith | 1801–1866 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Nat Straw | 1857–1941 | | | |[10] |- valign="top" | Montague Stevens | 1859–1953 | |  United Kingdom | |[5] |- valign="top" | Ceran St. Vrain | 1802–1870 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Milton Sublette | 1801–1837 | 1823–1835 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | William Sublette | 1799–1845 | 1823–1832 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Thomas Tate Tobin | 1823–1904 | 1837–1878 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Elbridge Trask | 1815–1863 | 1835–1852 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Louis Vasquez | 1798–1868 | 1723–1858 | | |[1] |- valign="top" | Joseph R. Walker | 1798–1876 | 1832–1863 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Pauline Weaver | 1797–1867 | 1830–1867 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | John Henry Weber | 1779–1859 | 1822–1840 |  Germany | | |- valign="top" | William Sherley "Old Bill" Williams | 1787–1849 | 1812–1849 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Dick Wooten | 1816–1893 | |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth | 1802–1856 | 1832–1837 |  United States | | |- valign="top" | Harry Yount | 1839–1924 | 1866–1924 |  United States | | |}

References

  1. ^ a b c Mariano Medina, Colorado Mountain Man, by Zethyl Gates (Paperback 093347251X), web:PS–1X.
  2. ^ Hafen, LeRoy R. "Joseph Bissonet dit Bijou". The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. Vol. 9. Glendale, California: A. H. Clark Co., 1965.
  3. ^ "William Thomas Hamilton". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  4. ^ "Harris, Moses [aka Black Moses / "Black Squire"] (1800?–1849)". BlackPast.org. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  5. ^ a b Salmon, Dutch. Mountain Men of the Gila. SouthernNewMexico.com. Retrieved 2012–09–25
  6. ^ Thwaites, Reuben G., ed. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1905.
  7. ^ Waldman, Carl and Alan Wexler. "Pattie, James Ohio". Encyclopedia of Exploration. Vol. 1. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2004.
  8. ^ Nichols, Jeffery D., Fellow Trappers called Etienne Provost Man Of The Mountains. History Blazer, Aug 1995;Leroy R. Hafen, "Etienne Provost, Mountain Man and Utah Pioneer," Utah Historical Quarterly 36 (1968); Jack B. Tykal, Etienne Provost: Man of the Mountains (Liberty, Utah: Eagle's View Publishing Company, 1989)
  9. ^ Haines, Aubrey L., ed. Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. ISBN 0803251661
  10. ^ Davis, Carolyn O'Bagy. Mogollon Mountain Man Nat Straw: Grizzly Hunter and Trapper. Tucson: Sanpete Publications, 2003.

Further reading

  • DeVoto, Bernard. Across the Wide Missouri. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1947. ISBN 0395924979
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