This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.

2023年3月8日 · Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, mountain men were a group of explorers, fur traders, and adventurers who lived and worked in the North American wilderness. They were most active in the United States and Canada’s Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, and Great Plains regions.

A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting, fishing and trapping. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s).

2016年4月25日 · 6 Legendary Mountain Men of the American Frontier. Find out more about the lives of six adventurers who made their mark on the American frontier.

2016年5月17日 · These legends were once real live men and women who endured some of the toughest trials and tribulations we can imagine—if the stories are true.

2020年4月14日 · Contrary to the popular American myth of singular mountain men who eschewed humans and lived solely on their own, most traveled in brigades for survival. But there were some exceptions and those individuals were the grist for legend.

2020年12月28日 · Movies like 1972's Jeremiah Johnson have created the ideal mountain man in our minds, but what was it really like to live through harrowing snowstorms, high desert heat and the knowledge that one small mistake could cost one's life? Read on to find what it was really like to live as a mountain man.

In this article we focus only on ten of the most incredible examples of these men. Be they deserters who fled to the mountains to avoid military service, fortune seeking fur traders, or just lunatics. Here are the greatest Old West mountain men.

2017年12月4日 · Richardson, the 46-year-old co-creator of the hit show Mountain Men — a reality series about guys surviving off the land — is sitting in a bar in Yaak, Montana, in February, explaining how he...

Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West? The brutal and unforgiving American frontier created a different kind of man. These explorers, fur trappers, guides, and frontiersmen led...