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 ...

Cache Valley resident Carson Pate lives every day like it’s the 1800s. As a modern day mountain man, Carson’s lifestyle is akin to that of the trappers & mountaineers of the American West in ...

The 100-member Spring Mountain Free Trappers are set to bring history to ... serving food prepared just as it might have been in the years 1800 to 1840, and welcoming traders selling products ...