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Despite the activities of American mountain men and upwards of 12 attempted companies, [1] the commercial hegemony of the British company remained in force until after the formation of the Provisional Government. Britain and the U.S. continued a tense "joint occupation" as economic activity in the region continued to expand.
A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting 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).
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 American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) is the United States' "sole representative to the 21-member International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA), the international governing body responsible for guiding standards and education around the world". [1]
The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club.It was once described as: "a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" (Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).
John Brown (December 22, 1817 – April 20, 1889) was an American mountain man and trader in the Arkansas River valley in Colorado in the 1840s. From the 1850s until his death he was a prominent businessman and citizen of San Bernardino, California .
He has been described as a mountain man, trapper, and scout of the American West, [3] [4] living in the mountains for more than 50 years. He was given the name Wildcat Bill by Native Americans. [5] He was considered a healer among Native Americans. Also called Sign Man, he excelled in Native American sign language according to Favour. [1]
James Clyman was born on a farm that belonged to George Washington in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1792.Clyman's family started to migrate from place to place when Clyman was 15, moving from Virginia to Pennsylvania, and then to Ohio.