fur trappers, guides, and frontiersmen led the American expansion in the first years of the 1800s. The best became legendary, like John Colter, Kit Carson, and Jim Bridger. Mountain men roamed the ...

Who are these guys? They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that flourished in North America from roughly 1800 to 1840. Like the better known reenactors of the Civil War ...

History Channel show airs Sundays at 9 p.m. Eastern Tom Oar is one of six mountain men on the show He makes leather moccasins using Native American techniques YAAK, Mont. — Tom Oar has been ...

A spring tradition for history buffs, modern-day mountain men and those curious about what life was like during the apex of ...

In 1825 William Henry Ashley and a group of mountain men made a roughly 800-mile trip on packhorses and then boats northeast across what is now Wyoming and on into Montana and North Dakota.

Mountain men plow big money into firearms, clothing, tents and other accoutrements of the fur-trapping past. Buckskin shirts can run $400 or more, depending on the intricacy of bead work.

"Trappers explored the frontier when the fur trade collapsed," said the ... "OK, you also have to remember that mountain men were known to lie a lot." Trousdale, who goes by the Free Trapper ...

The lake's salinity convinced the mountain men that the lake must be an arm of the Pacific Ocean. Bridger's "discovery" recalled to their minds the Buenaventura River, an old myth of the American West ...

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband ...