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The regimental headquarters are at JR Vicars Armoury in Kamloops, with an additional rifle company in Prince George. The Rocky Mountain Rangers are part of the 3rd Canadian Division's 39 Canadian Brigade Group, the brigade responsible for Canadian Army organization in British Columbia. [2] [3]
The Hawken rifle is a muzzle-loading rifle that was widely used on the prairies and in the Rocky Mountains of the United States during the early frontier days. Developed in the 1820s, it became synonymous with the "plains rifle", the buffalo gun, and a trade rifle for fur trappers, traders, clerks, and hunters.
North American Arms is a United States company, headquartered in Provo, Utah, that manufactures pocket pistols and mini-revolvers, also called mouse guns. [1] The company was originally named Rocky Mountain Arms when it was founded in 1972.
Hawken rifle / Pierre's Hole; Rendezvous of 1832; Rocky Mountain Rendezvous + Museum of the Mountain Man; Rocky Mountain Fur Company; A. John "Grizzly" Adams;
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was a United States chemical weapons manufacturing center located in the Denver Metropolitan Area in Commerce City, Colorado. The site was completed December 1942, [ 1 ] operated by the United States Army throughout the later 20th century and was controversial among local residents until its closure in 1992.
Rocky Mountains Trapper (supposedly) William "Old Bill" Williams. Jim Beckwourth (1798–1866) was born into slavery, arrived in Missouri with his parents and was freed by his father. He started working with the Ashley expedition, signed on with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and became a well-known mountain man
Co B, Building 731, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Denver, CO 80240; Co C, 482-28 Road, PO Box 1805, Grand Junction, CO 81501 2d Platoon, 631 Grand Avenue, PO Box 1805, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601; 3d Platoon, 109 West 19th Street, PO Box 378, Durango, CO 81301; Support Company, Building 2344, Fort Carson, CO 80913
The Rocky Mountain Rendezvous was an annual rendezvous, held between 1825 and 1840 at various locations, organized by a fur trading company at which trappers and mountain men sold their furs and hides and replenished their supplies.