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"Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own." 
Seneca

America First Expands Westward
Mountain Men

A few men moved westward long before the settlers and gold hunters began their trek. They were solitary men who lived mostly off the land. They traded with the Indians and spent a great deal of time hunting and fur trapping. They discovered the many trails that were later used by the settlers that soon followed. 64% of the mountain men that were married had married Native American women. Source: Mountain Men Myths and Facts
"Mountain men
were trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains — from about 1810 through the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s) where they were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails (widened into wagon roads) allowing Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains traveling over roads explored and in many cases, physically improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies originally to serve the mule train based inland fur trade.
Source: Wikipedia

 

 Mountain Man, Indian, & Canadian Fur Trade Mountain Men: Pathfinders of the West 1810-1860
Google Scholarly Articles and Books Google Legal Opinions and Journals  
EBooks
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen
By George Laycock, Paul Schullery, Tom Beecham
Mountain men and fur traders of the Far West: eighteen biographical sketches
By Le Roy Reuben Hafen, Harvey Lewis Carter
Jim Bridger, mountain man: a biography
By Stanley Vestal
 Yahoo Directory
Buffalo Soldiers@ | California Gold Rush@ | Conestoga Wagons | Indian Wars@ | Native American History@ |        Organizations | People | Republic of Texas@ | U.S. - Mexican War (1846-1848)@
Wikipedia Gateway
Coureur des bois | Emigrant Trails, esp. Oregon Trail | Fort Laramie | List of Mountain Men | Noble savage | North American fur trade | James "Grizzly" Adams

 

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