Explorer, Trapper, Trader Index - Page 2

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• Russel Farnham (1784-1832) - Explorer and fur trader, Farnham was an agent of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company.

• Thomas Fitzpatrick, aka: Broken Hand (1799-1854) - A mountain man and Indian agent, Fitzpatrick was involved in many of the most important events in the opening of the West.

• Mike Fink (1770-1823) - A keelboatman and fur trader, he was also a renowned marksman, roisterer, and champion rough-and-tumble fighter. He joined William Henry Ashley's first fur-trapping and trading expedition to the upper Missouri River country and was killed in a quarrel the next year.

• Lucien Fontenelle (1800-1839) - A fur trader, Fontenelle, was associated with several fur companies before becoming part of the American Fur Company.

• John Charles Fremont (1813-1890) - Was an explorer, military officer, and politician who led multiple surveying expeditions through the western territory of the United States.

• Joseph Goff Gale (1807-1881) - A trapper, pioneer and politician, Gale spent much of his life in Oregon.

• Baltasar de Gallegos - Spanish Officer and explorer.

• John Gannt (1790-1849) - A soldier, trapper, trader and guide, Gannt spent many years in the wilderness of the American West.

• Hugh Glass (1780?-1833) - A trapper and trader in the American West, he was killed by Arikara Indians.

Russel Farnham (1784-1832)

• Benjamin "Ben" Vernon Lilly (1856-1936) - Often called the "last of the mountain men,” Ben Lilly was known as the greatest lion and bear hunter in the southwest.

• Manuel Lisa (1772-1820) - Frontiersman, explorer, and fur trader, Lisa founded the Missouri Fur Company.

• Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864) - An engineer, explorer, and military officer, Long led what's known as the Long's Expedition through the great plains.

• Lucien B. Maxwell - (1818-1875) - The owner of the largest land grant in U.S.History, a friend of Kit Carson, and a frontier scout and guide, Maxwell, who has been called the "Emporer of the Old West," died in poverty in New Mexico.

• Kenneth McKenzie (1797-1861) - One of the most able traders that ever worked for the American Fur Company.

• Owen McKenzie - (1826-1863) - Frontiersman and son of famed fur trader, Kenneth McKenzie, he was killed in brawl with Malcolm Clarke.

• Joseph Lafayette Meek (1810-1875) - Meek went westward from Virginia at an early age signing on with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Later he settled in Oregon where he was appointed the territory's federal marshal, a post he held for the next five years. In 1855, he played a leading part in the Yakima War, organizing the Oregon Volunteers and winning the rank of major for his service.

• Moses Embree "California Joe" Milner (1829-1876) - Scout, frontiersman, and miner, California Joe was George Armstrong Custer's Chief Scout in 1868.

• Missouri Fur Company (1808-12, 1819-24) - First established as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company by several famous explorers and traders, including Manuel Lisa, Pierre Choteau, Sr., Auguste Choeau, Jr., Andrew Henry, William Clark, and others, the company prospered until the War of 1812, at which time it folded. It was resurrected; however, in 1819, then becoming simply the Missouri Fur Company, which went bankrupt in 1824.

• David Dawson Mitchell (1806-1861) - fur trader, Indian Agent and soldier in the Mexican-American War.

• North West Company (1779-1821) - A Canadian based fur company, the competition with Hudson's Bay Company was so fierce it caused armed conflicts and they were forced by the British authorities, to merge with Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.

• Pacific Fur Company (1810-1813) - Founded in June, 1810 by John Jacob Astor,who also owned the American Fur Company, it was short lived when it lost two ships, were attacked by Indians, and were forced out by the War of 1812.

• Archibald Palmer, aka: James A. Hamilton (??-1840) - Thought to have been of noble English descent, Palmer worked for the American Fur Company and was in charge of Fort Union, North Dakota for a time.

• Pierre Didier Papin (1798-1853) - A fur trader with the American Fur Company.

• Honore Picotte - A French-Canadian trapper and trader who worked for several fur companies and became influential with the American Fur Company.

• Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) - A soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named, Pike mapped much of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase.

• Joshua Pilcher (1790-1843) - Trapper, trader with the Missouri and American Fur Companies, he later succeeded William Clark as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Simon Plamondon (1800-1900) - A frontiersman and adventurer who worked for the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies.

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