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  2. Mountain man - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Mick Dodge - Wikipedia

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    Mick Dodge (born August 29, 1951), also known as "The Barefoot Sensei", "the Barefooted Nomad" and "Walking Mountain" [1] is a television personality and rainforest-dweller in Washington. Early life [ edit ]

  4. List of mountain men - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Jim Bridger - Wikipedia

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    James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century.

  6. Ben Lilly - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Vernon Lilly or Ben Lilly (1856 – December 17, 1936), nicknamed Ol' Lilly, was a notorious big game hunter, houndsman and mountain man of the late American Old West. He remains famous for hunting down large numbers of grizzly , cougars and black bears .

  7. William Thomas Hamilton (frontiersman) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Eustace Conway - Wikipedia

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    Eustace Robinson Conway IV (born September 15, 1961) is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert.He has also been the subject of Adventures in the Simple Life by Sarah Vowell on the weekly radio show This American Life with Ira Glass.

  9. Joseph Meek - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Lafayette Meek (February 9, 1810 – June 20, 1875) was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States.