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The North West Company fur trader Francois-Antoine Larocque travelled parts of the eastern present-day Montana in 1805, [1]: 156–220 and the following explorations of the Lewis and Clark Expedition opened the area further for commerce.
At the start of the 19th century, the North American fur trade was expanding toward present-day Montana from two directions. Representatives of British and Canadian fur trade companies, primarily the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, pushed west and south from their stronghold on the Saskatchewan River, while American trappers and traders followed the trail of the Lewis and ...
Henry Fraeb, also called Frapp, was a mountain man, fur trader, and trade post operator of the American West, operating in the present-day states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. Early life [ edit ]
Jim Baker (1818–1898), known as "Honest Jim Baker", [1] was a frontiersman, trapper, hunter, army scout, interpreter, and rancher. He was first a trapper and hunter. The decline of the fur trade in the early 1840s drove many trappers to quit, but Baker remained in the business until 1855.
"Kalispell" is a Salish word meaning "flat land above the lake". [7] The townsite was quickly platted, and lots began selling by the spring of 1891. Kalispell was officially incorporated as a city in 1892, [11] and Conrad built a large mansion there in 1895. [12] Since that time, the city has continued to grow in population, reaching 19,927 in ...
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" 'Mountain Man' Troy James Knapp faces justice after six years on run". The Guardian. Coleman, Jon T. Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation, Hill and Wang (2012). Gowans, Fred. Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: A History of The Fur Trade 1825–1840. Gibbs M. Smith, Layton, Utah 2005. 13. ISBN 1-58685-756-8.
James Felix Bridger was born on March 17, 1804, in Richmond, Virginia. [5] His parents were James Bridger, an innkeeper in Richmond, and his wife, Chloe. [5] About 1812, the family moved near St. Louis at the eastern edge of America's vast new western frontier. [5]