Perhaps no one in American exploration fit that bill better than Jim Bridger. An explorer, a trapper, a scout, and the first white man to lay eyes on large swathes of the American West ...

on a multi-year exploration of the Louisiana Purchase ... That same spring was born another explorer, Jim Bridger - mountain man, who would come to know the northern intermountain West better ...

Caught in the middle of it all is none other than mountain man Jim Bridger. However, Jim Bridger has quite a legacy in the American West. If you’re settling into American Primeval this week and ...

Bridger’s achievements have inspired depictions in books like Fort Bridger, island in the wilderness by Fred R. Gowans and James Bridger—Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout And Guide—A Historical ...

Jim Bridger and Fort Bridger did exist — and both ran afoul of Brigham Young (Kim Coates) and his ambitions for the young Mormon faith… The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of violent ...

And in the middle of both the land and its conflicts is Jim Bridger, an early settler who built his own trading post and now finds himself surrounded by warring factions, and occasionally ...

While the six-part series is centered around real places, a few real events and some real people — ranging from the Utah War and the Mountain Meadows Massacre to mountain man Jim Bridger and ...

This is the Jim Bridger power plant, one of the largest coal-fired power sources in the nation and an enormous emitter of carbon dioxide pollution. At the plant's edge there's a reservoir ...