Wyoming's Early Trappers, Fur Traders, and Mountain Men: Jim Beckwourth, Nathaniel J. Wyeth, James Bridger, Kit Carson, Jedediah S. Smith, Robert Newell (1899)

The author, Charles Griffin Coutant (1840 - 1913), was a resident of Cheyenne and served as a Wyoming state librarian and archivist.

It will be clearly established in the minds of those who read the early history of Wyoming that to the trappers belong the credit of having first made permanent homes in this country. Many of the men who came out with Ashley, Bonneville, and other renowned heroes, conceived the idea of making the mountains their abiding place. They paid dearly for their temerity, and the estimate is that three-fifths of this number met violent deaths at the hands of the Native Americans. A majority took Indian wives, but this only protected them from the particular tribes to which their wives belonged. The hereditary enemies of such tribes scalped these white men whenever the opportunity offered. When Fremont came into the country he found numerous white men who had married among Indians.


Contents:
Jim Beckwourth,
Nathaniel J. Wyeth,
James Bridger,
Kit Carson,
Jedediah S. Smith,
Joshua Pilcher,
George W. Ebberts,
Robert Newell,
Captain William Sublette,
Thomas Fitzpatrick ,
Fr App,
Jervaise,
Fontenelle,
Jennings,
Leroy,
Ross,
Sinclair Brothers,
Dripps,
Vasques,
Uoodale,
Pappen,
Tulleck.

This book originally published in 1899 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.