I defy the annals of chivalry to furnish the record of a life more wild and perilous than that of a rocky mountain trapper. 95 miles in a single daybut he seems to have worked as a mountain man and free trapper before dropping out of society and joining a.
Stumble upon a grizzly was often deadly.
Trapper mountain men 1800s. Mountain man 1700s 1800s america. The use of iron traps did not become wide spread until the early 1800s. Trapper the mountain men.
As with many mountain men. Mountain men and life in the rocky mountain west. In the west of the 1800s explorers and mountain men proceeded on their travels with great caution.
A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness. The mountain man and trapper lead a life that was dangerous arduous and at times down right miserable. Index to articles and summaries of the hundreds of explorers trappers scouts and mountain men of the american west.
Mountain men in. Mountain men art lonely trapper alfredo. Beaver traps created the mountain man and.
He then ventured westward where he was a trapper hunter and trader. Mountain men were the men who helped open up the west to the rest of. Trapper with a camp tender.
Mountain men were most common in the north american rocky mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s. Smith was largely unknown during his life but has come to be known as one of the most prolific mountain men living as a trapper explorer cartographer. The lives of many mountain men ended in violence either by.