Mountain Man Rendezvous in Riverton isn’t just held near a historic rendezvous site, it’s the actual site. It's where Jim ...

SEQUIM — The Green River Mountain Men host its annual rendezvous at the Peninsula Long Rifle Association’s property off Slab Camp Road this weekend. This re-enactment of the annual fur trappers’ ...

When an 18-year-old Joe Meek arrived in the wilderness of Wyoming in 1829, the greenhorn had to toughen up fast to survive ...

Mountain Men follows one other Montanan, Rich Lewis, a mountain lion tracker in the Ruby Valley. The show also follows an Alaskan fur trapper, a man in North Carolina who lives self sufficiently ...

Maps: Trapper trails to the Sisk-ke-dee: some of the more important routes used by the mountain men in exploiting the fur field of the transmountain country, 1810-1843 -- The far West realm of the ...

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 ...

OGDEN — A spring tradition for history buffs, modern-day mountain men and those curious about what life was like during the apex of the North American fur trade in the 19th century will return ...

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 ...