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	Mountain men - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mountain men were trappers and explorers that roamed the Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s.
		The stereotypical mountain man was depicted as a loner dressed in animal pelts, sporting bushy facial hair and carrying a muzzle loader and butcher knife, commonly referred to as a "scalpin' knife." Although depicted wearing pelts and furs, it is an incorrect description.
		Some mountain men were gruff, while others were well-mannered; however, they were romanticized as honorable men with their own chivalrous code who would help their brethren, but were more at home in the wild.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mountain_men (491 words)

	AllRefer.com - mountain men (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Of the men who accompanied him, many were to spend most of the next few decades living in the mountains, sharing the hardships of Native American life, learning the paths, the rivers, and the peaks, and gathering furs.
		The mountain men more often than not gathered the furs themselves and brought their harvest to an annual rendezvous at some previously appointed spot in the fur country.
		In 1832 the American Fur Company began to send traders and trappers into the territory of the mountain men; some of their agents were outsmarted by their rivals and killed by the Native Americans, but the company persisted with its activities and ultimately employed many of the old mountain men.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/mntnmen.html (727 words)

	Mountain Men
		The fur trappers of the Rocky Mountains became known as mountain men.
		Mountain men also died after being bitten by rattlesnakes, mauled by grizzly bears, infections from injuries, climbing accidents, dysentery and smallpox.
		Five or six men are employed at each post; but in the interior, where danger is always to be apprehended from the predatory habits of the Indians, their number is considerably increased.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWmountainM.htm (6608 words)

	The Mountain Men
		This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest.
		Floyd was one of the first three men enlisted in the Corps of Discovery and became the only member to die along the route.
		Retracing the footsteps of the disastrous expedition in the autumn of 1848 from the Missouri River for the uncharted Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
	www.guidon.com /mtnmen.html (11054 words)

	Mountain Men: Lifestyle
		The legends and feats of the mountain men have persisted largely because there was a lot of truth to the tales that were told.
		The life of the mountain man was rough, and one that brought him face to face with death on a regular basis--sometimes through the slow agony of starvation, dehydration, burning heat, or freezing cold and sometimes by the surprise attack of animal or Indian.
		The mountain man's life was ruled not by the calendar or the clock but by the climate and seasons.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/lifestyle.html (573 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mountain men or fur trappers used castoreum to bait their beaver traps.
		During the mountain men era, the fur trader William Ashley organized an annual rendezvous or meeting with his fur trappers at a designated location in the West.
		This deeply religious mountain man was known for carrying his Bible in the frontier West and for his courage.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/mountain.htm (584 words)

	Sports Afield: Mountain fighters, mountain men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1941, the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment was organized at Fort Lewis, Washington, and began ski training on the 14,408-foot snowy monolith of Mount Ranier.
		Since mules are extremely sure-footed in the mountains, moving heavy howitzers uphill became the big job for the "mule packers." The 10th employed 75mm pack howitzers, which weighed 1,300 pounds.
		They were also experienced woodsmen-trappers, forest rangers, and lumberjacks-men who lived most of the year in mountainous, snowy conditions, and for whom skis and snow-- shoes were essential to the pursuit of their backcountry livelihood.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3775/is_200201/ai_n9039576 (1481 words)

	Washington County Historical Society - Programs: Mountain Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The men that worked for Astor worked in the river valleys east of the Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific coast in Washington and Oregon-they were not considered mountain men.
		Mountain men primarily traded their furs at trading posts were they could pick up more supplies.
		Mountain men and their families endured many months of harsh weather, often were near-starvation, sometimes unfriendly encounters with Native Americans, unfamiliar terrain, and overtime, a reduced yield of beaver.
	www.washingtoncountymuseum.org /programs/mountain.html (1398 words)

	American West - Mountain Men
		Men such as Jim Bridger were employed by Fur Trading companies to trap beavers and other animals for their fur.
		By 1840, fur hats were no longer fashionable and many mountain men became guides for those making the journey across the Plains to the west.
		The mountain men were pioneers in charting the unknown territory west of the frontier.
	www.historyonthenet.com /American_West/mountain_men.htm (349 words)

	Mountain Men
		These trappers became known as "mountain men." They roamed throughout the wild areas of the Rocky Mountains and on to the coastal regions in search of fur-bearing animals.
		Pretend that you are part of a company of trappers and mountain men during the 1830s.
		These documents, diaries, narratives, and letters of the mountain men, are accounts of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the first half of the 19th century.
	www.42explore2.com /mtnmen.htm (930 words)

	Mountain Men Security fighting crime, armed response alarms cctv camera's
		Mountain Security Services CC trading as Mountain Men a company that has fighting crime at it's heart offers home, personal and business security needs along with armed response covering areas from Kirstenhof, Muizeneberg to Glencairn.
		With no means of communicating with the police, once a suspect was observed, the men would leave the mountain and follow the suspect on foot.
		Local residents soon started to call these men "The Mountain Men" and requested that this type of community security be carried out on a more regular basis.
	www.mountainmen.co.za (645 words)

	The Mountain Men: Overland Trail--Updated 05/15/00
		Mostly these men were obscure and illiterate who owned hardly more than a rifle and their traps.
		The west became a field of romantic adventure, and developed a class of men who followed the wandering career of the native inhabitants rather than the toilsome lot of the eastern colonist.
		A rival company, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, was owned at various times by some of the most famous of mountain men: Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Jim Bridger, among others.
	www.over-land.com /mtmen.html (645 words)

	Mountain Men Rendezvous and Other Information--The Overland Trail Links--Last updated 10/29/01
		The Fur Trade in Utah The mountain men had a positive impact upon the native inhabitants of this region, creating an improved climate for those who would come later.
		Language of the Mountain Man The language of the trappers was a combination of English, French, Spanish, several Indian languages and as far from gramatical and literary correctness as it is possible to imagine.
		Mountain Men From the Jim Baker Party of American Mountain Men.
	www.over-land.com /westpers31.html (1106 words)

	Discoverers of the Oregon-Trail
		In 1808, mountain man John Colter stumbled upon a land where hot water shot straight into the air and the earth bubbled as if it were boiling.
		When Ashley finally reached his men each year, it was cause for celebration--a wild party they called "the rendezvous." Every year throughout the 1820s and 30s it was the same: gambling, drinking, storytelling that went on for days.
		The era of the mountain man had passed and the age of the pioneer was beginning.
	www.isu.edu /~trinmich/Discoverers.html (1964 words)

	Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
		AS USED HERE, the term "Mountain Men" applies to those trappers and traders who went into the Rocky Mountains before emigrants had even sought a pass through them to the west or cattle had beat out a trail on the plains east of them.
		Beaver fur was the lodestar for the Mountain Men.
		This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest, Knopf, New York, 1950.
	www.oldcardboard.com /lsj/olbooks/dobie/dobie16.htm (940 words)

	Reader's Corner: Your spiritual food, served fresh every day
		Any mountain—the mountain of this life, the mountain of accomplishment, the mountain of obstacles, of difficulty—if you’re going to climb it, it has to be worth dying for, to brave wind and cold and storm, symbolic of adversities.
		The silence on the mountain peak is deafening.
		The only thing the mountain people can do is conquer the valley people, and the easiest way to do that is to let those who won’t listen rot in their own iniquity, so they become weak and lazy, corpulent and sick with their own sin.
	www.thefamily.org /word/mls/index.php3?letterid=9 (3214 words)

	Effects of Indian Fur Trade on Native American Indian History Pictures Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mountain Man Indian Fur Trade website is for the collecting and sharing of information on the Rocky Mountain fur trade conducted between the Mountain Men, Plains Indians, and the fur traders of the United States and Canada.
		In the Rocky Mountain Man Indian Fur Trade articles, the Plains Indians and the Indians of the Rocky Mountains are grouped together as Plains Indians.
		The Mountain Man Indian Fur Trade website is concerned with the history of the Rocky Mountain Men and the Indian fur trade from the early 1800s to 1840s, not trapping.
	www.thefurtrapper.com (2540 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mountain Men: Books: George Laycock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West by Leroy R. Hafen
		The author then discusses their lifestyle, the mountains, what trapping was like, how they trapped beaver and their relationships with the Indians.
		If I were going to recommend a single book to someone who had no knowledge of the Mountain Men, and wanted to learn of their lifestyles, this would be the book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558214542?v=glance (1335 words)

	Mountain Men \| eThemes \| eMINTS
		Learn about origins of mountain men, their trades and main activities of hunting and fur trading.
		Read this discussion of historians about value and historical importance of mountain men and their trade in the North West and North America.
		This is a web site for the museum of the Mountain Man. Read about exhibit items from the era of mounting men and learn their historical background.
	www.emints.org /ethemes/resources/S00001438.shtml (571 words)

	USATODAY.com - Old mountain men don't fade away ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So when mountain men get together (some wives and kids join in, but it's mostly men), the only concession to comfort is that colossus of inventions, toilet paper.
		The American Mountain Men made this exception, perhaps to ensure that members, who proudly call themselves "survivalists," aren't overtaken by a negative image born of secrecy.
		The American Mountain Men Code elegantly captures the dueling nature of the mountain-man ethic: to "at all times consider another man's private life none of my business," while at the same time, "in a survival situation, to be willing to divide any food and water I have with people found in need."
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-11-24-mountain-men_x.htm (1505 words)

	Museum of the Mountain Man - Pinedale, Wyoming
		The Museum presents a visual and interpretative experience into the romantic era of the Mountain man and provides a comprehensive overview of the Western Fur Trade's historical significance.
		Situated in the heart of the country that was once the hub of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous system (six of the
		rendezvous of the early 1800s were held in the Green River Valley near present day Pinedale, Wyoming), the Museum stands as a monument to the men and the commerce that opened the West.
	www.museumofthemountainman.com (352 words)

	Digital History
		The "mountain men" blazed the great westward trails through the Rockies and Sierra Nevada Mountains and stirred the popular imagination with stories of redwood forests, geysers, and fertile valleys in California, Oregon and other areas west of the Rocky Mountains.
		These men also undermined the ability of the western Indians to resist white incursions by encouraging intertribal warfare and making Indians dependent on American manufactured goods, killing off the animals that provided a major part of their hunting and gathering economy, distributing alcohol, and spreading disease.
		The life of the mountain men was difficult, dangerous, and violent.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=306 (283 words)

	Mountain Men - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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		The North Face Mountain Light Jacket is a waterproof breathable shell that has your back when its you versus the elements.
		The Marmot Mountain Down jacket is built with the warmth retaining details youd expect to find in one of their super cozy sleeping bags.
	www.nextag.com /mountain-men/search-html (375 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mountain Men: DVD: Charlton Heston,Brian Keith,Victoria Racimo,Stephen Macht,Seymour Cassel,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Director Richard Lang's THE MOUNTAIN MEN is a rough-and-tumble yarn depicting the fur trapping industry's final days in the pristine splendor of the northern Rockies.
		THE MOUNTAIN MEN is a just okay actioner, the story of veteran mountain men Bill Tyler (Charlton Heston) and his friend Henry Frapp (Brian Keith) circa 1825, the Blackfoot woman, Running Moon (Victoria Racimo) they kidnap and the bloodthirsty brave Heavy Eagle (Stephen Macht) who resents it.
		First the two mountain men are struggling with the decline of the fur industry and their future in it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006672R?v=glance (1730 words)

	MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This website is an on-line Research Center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, and mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men.
		Library - Books on the Mountain Men, including their Diaries, Narratives, and Letters.
		Gallery- Artwork of the Fur Trade era, Portraits of Mountain Men, maps and other images.
	www.xmission.com /~drudy/amm.html (73 words)

	Descriptions of Mountain Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This remark cut me deeply, and I hurried to the frontier store and traded all my fine clothes, shirts and dickies, which were worn in those days, for two suits of the finest buckskin, such as these merchants always kept on hand to fleece greenhorns like myself, making five hundred percent profit in the trade.
		Leroy Hafen calls what the mountain men wore "as perhaps the only original American costume- the fringed buckskin suit".
		A single buffulo robe folded double and spread upon the ground, with a rock or knoll or some substitute for a pillow, furnishes the sole base- work upon which the sleeper reclines, and enveloped in am additional blanket or robe, contently enjoys his rest.
	klesinger.com /jbp/dismm.html (2766 words)

	mountain men
		The mountain region was still virgin fur-gathering country, however, when William Henry
		began to send traders and trappers into the territory of the mountain men; some of their agents were outsmarted by their rivals and killed by the Native Americans, but the company persisted with its activities and ultimately employed many of the old mountain men.
		(who was guided by mountain men) and the beginning of the wagon trains of settlers to Oregon (also guided by mountain men), the old life began to change.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0834256.html (624 words)

	Rocky Mountain Man, Plains Indian, Canadian Fur Trade Websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These are large sites with a tremendous amount, and variety of information, on Lewis and Clark, Mountain Men, Native American Indians, Canadian Fur Trade, and Trade Beads.
		- The Mountain Men: Pathfinders of the West 1810 –1860 – University of Virginia.
		is a recently published book by David and Susan Burwen on the artist, the murals, and the history of the mountain man rendezvous.
	www.mountainsofstone.com /related_links.htm (480 words)

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