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William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company , along with his four brothers.
Fort William was founded by William Sublette and his partner Robert Campbell in 1834. In the spring of 1835, Sublette sold the fort to Thomas Fitzpatrick, a local fur trader. After a rendezvous in 1836, it was sold to the American Fur Company, which still had a virtual monopoly on the western fur trade.
William Howard Sublette (May 30, 1880 – December 29, 1955) was an American Negro league pitcher between 1908 and 1910. A native of Nashville, Tennessee , Sublette attended Fisk University and played for the Leland Giants in 1908 and again in 1910.
When Campbell returned to the west, he was asked by William Sublette to form a partnership. Sublette even agreed to an odd relationship for the first year, making Robert a lieutenant but having him purchase his own goods for rendezvous, using the sale of this merchandise as the stake he needed to officially join the business. [5]
Smith, Jackson, and Sublette sold their company to Jim Bridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Milton Sublette (the brother of William), Henry Freab, and Baptiste Gervais. 1831: Cache Valley; the support trek was late, so there was no real rendezvous. 1832: Pierre's Hole, east of Rexburg, Idaho; 1833: Upper Green River Rendezvous Site, Daniel, Wyoming
Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801–1837), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. He was the second of five Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William , Andrew , and Solomon.
Smith, Jackson and William Sublette bought the firm in 1826, changing its name to Smith, Jackson and William Sublette. [2] They sold out to Bridger, Milton Sublette, Fitzpatrick and two others in 1830, at which time the enterprise was given the name by which it is most commonly referred to. [2] [5] [6] The payment method was uniquely designed ...
Meek as a young man The old Joe Meek, as depicted in Frances Fuller Victor's Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and a Life on the Frontier, seeks employment with William Sublette. Joseph Meek was born on February 9, 1810, to James Meek and Spica Walker in Washington County, Virginia, near the Cumberland Gap.