Articles related to "Rocky Mountain Fur Company"

In the fur trade, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company is in competition with the American Fur Company, Hudson's Bay, and smaller new companies.

Jim Bridger is credited with establishing the Oregon Trail, being one of the first Caucasians to explore Yellowstone, and for charting the trail to Montana's gold fields.

California Gold Rush in 1849 summoned easterners across the Mississippi River and to travel over the most rugged terrain in the mid 19th century.

William Sublette, in 1822, makes his first fur-trading trip up the Missouri with William Ashley. With him are future mountain men Jedediah S. Smith and David E. Jackson.

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.