Mountain Men of the Rockies - Adventures of Colter, Bridger, Bill Gordon, Peg Leg Smith, Old Bill Williams, Bill Bent, J.S. Smith, the Sublettes, and Other Trappers in that Remote Region #978520

A classic 1883 account of the trappers, scouts, and explorers who entered the Rocky Mountain wilderness before the American West was transformed forever.

Long before railroads and established settlements reached the interior West, the Rocky Mountains were crossed and contested by men whose lives depended on endurance, marksmanship, wilderness knowledge, and extraordinary nerve.

In Mountain Men of the Rockies, Frank Triplett recounts the adventures of some of the most memorable figures of the early frontier:

John Colter, whose legendary escape became one of the most dramatic survival stories in western history.
Jim Bridger, the famed trapper, guide, and founder of Fort Bridger.
Peg-Leg Smith, the eccentric and fearless mountain man.
Old Bill Williams, the solitary hunter of the wilderness.
Bill Bent, trader, fighter, and central figure in the history of Bent’s Fort.
J. S. Smith, among the boldest overland explorers of the American West.
The Sublette brothers, whose lives were inseparable from the rise of the Rocky Mountain fur trade.

Across these pages are harrowing pursuits, grizzly bear attacks, river crossings, frontier battles, trapping expeditions, overland journeys, and desperate struggles against hunger, weather, isolation, and violence.

Originally published in 1883 and presented with period illustrations, this book is more than a collection of wilderness adventures. It is also a revealing historical document of the nineteenth-century imagination of the American West—dramatic, uncompromising, and shaped by the assumptions of its time.

A compelling read for anyone interested in mountain men, the fur trade, frontier history, western exploration, Bent’s Fort, Jim Bridger, John Colter, and the untamed landscapes of the early American West.

Historical content note: This work preserves the language and viewpoints of its original period, including offensive and stereotyped descriptions of Native American peoples. These elements are presented as part of the historical text and do not represent the views of the publisher.