Mountain men roamed the wilds alone or in small groups ... Filled with the mountain man’s restless energy, Bridger traveled west from Missouri to California. His twenty years of trapping ...

The roar of the grizzly, war cries of the Blackfeet, and the lonesome song of the wind ushered 18-year-old Joe Meek to a ...

“East of the Mississippi,” he says, “mountain men were called long hunters. They’d wear cloth and woolens. Out West, we emulate the fur trade as it existed in the Rocky Mountains. That ...