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Pine Ridge Scout Camp: Greater St. Louis Area Council: Makanda: Active: Build as a summer camp for the Egyptian Council #120 in 1953-54. Pine Ridge ceased being a summer resident camp in 1994 and was merged with the Greater St. Louis Area Council #312. Pine Ridge continues to be utilized as for camporees, cub activities, training, and unit camping.
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. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.
The Trapper Creek Wilderness is a designated wilderness consisting of 5,969 acres (2,416 ha) in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southern Washington. The wilderness covers nearly the entire Trapper Creek drainage and is the only pristine anadromous fish habitat in the Wind River watershed. [ 1 ]
Jim Baker (1818–1898), known as "Honest Jim Baker", [1] was a frontiersman, trapper, hunter, army scout, interpreter, and rancher. He was first a trapper and hunter. The decline of the fur trade in the early 1840s drove many trappers to quit, but Baker remained in the business until 1855.
Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century.
A photo of a trapper on his line from the 1913 American autobiography Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper A photo of a modern trapper's cabin from the Brooks Range in Alaska. In the fur trade, a trapline is a route along which a trapper sets traps for their quarry. Trappers traditionally move habitually along the route to set and check the traps ...
In the fall of 1840, he went trapping with Kit Carson and other trappers near the Green River. [19] He spent 1841 and 1843 on expeditions to the Northwest and New Mexico. [1] Historian Michael Snyder, an Oklahoma State University professor and Osage Nation citizen, noted Williams's reputation declined as he aged. He wrote "Old Bill degenerated ...
David Edward Jackson (c. 1788 – December 24, 1837) was an American pioneer, trapper, fur trader, and explorer. Davey Jackson has often been referenced to as a son of the American Revolution. His father Edward Jackson and his Uncle George Jackson both served as Virginian Militia Officers during the Revolutionary War.