How Mountain Men Helped America
The life of a mountain man had great dangers around every turn. Everything wanted to kill them starvation, weather, and Indians. Some Mountain men found peace with the Indians and marries Indian women. The learned the native languages and customs.
The fur traded starts in the early 1800 to supply the demand for fur hats and clothes overseas. William Ashley and Andrew Henry placed an ad in a St. Louis paper to find recruits for an expedition that turned into a company later called the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. They employed some of the most famous mountain men of all time. People like Jim Bridger, Hugh Glass, and Jedidiah Smith were some of the original employs that read the ad and joined. Rival company’s
The life of a mountain man had great dangers around every turn. Everything wanted to kill them starvation, weather, and Indians. Some Mountain men found peace with the Indians and marries Indian women. The learned the native languages and customs.
The fur traded starts in the early 1800 to supply the demand for fur hats and clothes overseas. William Ashley and Andrew Henry placed an ad in a St. Louis paper to find recruits for an expedition that turned into a company later called the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. They employed some of the most famous mountain men of all time. People like Jim Bridger, Hugh Glass, and Jedidiah Smith were some of the original employs that read the ad and joined. Rival company’s