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2 giorni fa · James “Jim” Bridger was one of the most notable of these men, born in 1804 in Virginia. He was a trapper, fur trader, explorer, and guide who was renowned for his skill. He established the busy Fort Bridger along the Oregon Trail and inspired thousands to head west in pursuit of their own adventures. 1.
17 giu 2024 · Perhaps no one in American exploration fit that bill better than Jim Bridger. An explorer, a trapper, a scout, and the first white man to lay eyes on large swathes of the American West, Bridger was iconic in his day. And he lived long enough to mythologize his own deeds.
30 giu 2024 · He reunited with his old friend, Jim Bridger, and with him opened Fort Bridger in 1843. Located on the Black’s Fork of the Green River along the Oregon Trail in current-day Wyoming, the post was an extremely successful operation for the aging mountain men.
2 giorni fa · James « Jim » Bridger était l’un des plus remarquables de ces hommes,né en 1804 en Virginie. Trappeur, commerçant de fourrures, explorateur et guide, il était réputé pour son talent. Il a établi le fort Bridger, très fréquenté, le long de la piste de l'Oregon et a inspiré des milliers de personnes à se diriger vers l'ouest pour y vivre leurs propres aventures.
25 giu 2024 · Bridger's mark on Montana winds across the land like the wagon trains that followed him, but how much is really known about the man? Who did the young trapper portrayed in "The Revenant" become...
27 giu 2024 · Jim Bridger (born March 17, 1804, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died July 17, 1881, near Kansas City, Mo.) was an American fur trader, frontiersman, scout, the “mountain man” par excellence. In 1812, Bridger’s father, a surveyor and an innkeeper, moved his family to an Illinois farm near St. Louis, Mo.
24 giu 2024 · By 1847, two former fur trading frontier forts marked trailheads for major alternative routes through Utah and Wyoming to Northern California. The first was Jim Bridger's Fort Bridger (est. 1842) in present-day Wyoming on the Green River, where the Mormon Trail turned southwest over the Wasatch Range to the newly established Salt ...
