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ST. LOUIS: A WESTERN LADY
St. Louis, Missouri, the early 1820s, was the open door to the west. It was a growing and busy place, its population a variety of persons, both rich and poor, savage and civilized.
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Zenas Leonard, Fur Trapper
Like many mountain men, Zenas Leonard was fascinated by the unknown west. Also like many, he did not live a very long life. But what he experienced kept him away from his family for five years at one time.
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Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville
Captain Benjamin Bonneville's adventures in the fur trade of the Rocky Mountains and far West. Hudson Bay's depletion of beaver in Oregon Country.
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Mountain Man Rendezvous, 1832
The Mountain Man rendezvous of 1832 was held at Pierre's Hole. Hundreds of mountain men, trappers, Indians and fur company traders met to sell furs or trade for supplies.
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The Railroad, part 4
The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad is established to cross the Iowa plains between Davenport, Iowa and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Winning a fifty thousand dollar prize, it reaches Iowa City moments before church bells ring in New Year’s Day, 1856.
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THOMAS FITZPATRICK AND SOUTH PASS
Thomas Fitzpatrick arrives in St. Louis, Missouri and joins William Ashley’s fur trapping party. They start up the Missouri River but are forced to go overland. Fitzpatrick with Jed Smith and others discover South Pass.
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