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  2. Mountain man - Wikipedia

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    A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting and trapping.Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s).

  3. List of mountain men - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.

  4. The Backwoodsman - Wikipedia

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    The Backwoodsman, an American independent, bi-monthly print and digital magazine, is dedicated to the preservation of Old Frontier Living, with articles, information and how-to projects that explore primitive hunting and fishing, tools and weapons lore, wilderness survival and many other topics associated with this unique period of North American history.

  5. Janet Mae Johnson - Wikipedia

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    She was a member of the American Alpine Club and the Colorado Mountain Club. [2] By the age of 30, Johnson became one of the first 20 women to climb to the summits of Colorado's "fourteeners" – over 50 mountains in Colorado that exceed 14,000 feet. Her expeditions and photographs were often featured in Trail and Timberline magazine.

  6. Alex Lowe (mountaineer) - Wikipedia

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    On 5 October, they split into two teams as they searched for a route up the mountain. Lowe's group (Lowe, Anker and Bridges) were crossing a flat glacier when a large serac broke loose 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above and tumbled downhill. The 500-foot (150 m)-wide avalanche swept over the three men.

  7. Moses Harris (mountain man) - Wikipedia

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    Moses Harris, also known as Black Harris (died May 6, 1849), was a trapper, scout, guide, and mountain man. [1] [a] He participated in expeditions across the Continental Divide and to the Pacific Ocean through the Rocky and Cascade Mountains. He rescued westward-bound pioneers. Harris spoke the Shoshoni language. [1]

  8. James Clyman - Wikipedia

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    James Clyman was born on a farm that belonged to George Washington in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1792.Clyman's family started to migrate from place to place when Clyman was 15, moving from Virginia to Pennsylvania, and then to Ohio.

  9. Jim Bridger - Wikipedia

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    James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years.