Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramat...

In the early 1800s, vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded...

Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the Unite...

The legendary mountain men - the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and ...

It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa Ci...

This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, an...

Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for ye...

Known by the Indians as 'Broken Hand,' Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who bec...

Completing this memorable cast are Alexander Culbertson, skilled hunter; Auguste Pike Vasquez, mo...

To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort ...