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William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company , along with his four brothers.
Fort William, the first Fort Laramie, as it looked prior to 1840. Painting from memory by Alfred Jacob Miller. The original fort was constructed in the 1830s, probably in 1833–1834 by William Sublette and Robert Campbell. The overland fur trade was still prosperous when Jim Bridger and Tom Fitzpatrick bought the place. [5] [6]
Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801–1837), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. He was the second of five Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William , Andrew , and Solomon.
When Campbell returned to the west, he was asked by William Sublette to form a partnership. Sublette even agreed to an odd relationship for the first year, making Robert a lieutenant but having him purchase his own goods for rendezvous, using the sale of this merchandise as the stake he needed to officially join the business. [5]
William Howard Sublette (May 30, 1880 – December 29, 1955) was an American Negro league pitcher between 1908 and 1910. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Sublette attended Fisk University and played for the Leland Giants in 1908 and again in 1910. He died in Chicago, Illinois in 1955 at age 75. [1] [2]
Bill Sublette is a former Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. [1] [2]Sublette was born April 12, 1967, in Walnut Creek, California.In 1985, he graduated from the University of Florida with and B.A. in History, with honors.
Sunrise on the Albion Mountains, with the Sublett Range in the distance, August, 2010. The highest point in the range is known as the Sublett Range High Point at 7,492 feet (2,284 m), and the range is a part of the Basin and Range Province. [4]
Meek as a young man The old Joe Meek, as depicted in Frances Fuller Victor's Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and a Life on the Frontier, seeks employment with William Sublette. Joseph Meek was born on February 9, 1810, to James Meek and Spica Walker in Washington County, Virginia, near the Cumberland Gap.