American Explorers & Mountain Men Links
  • American Explorers Page Short biographies and pictures of several American explorers
  • William H. Ashley's 1825 Rocky Mountain Papers Ashley's Narrative was published in: The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829, with the original journals, by Harrison Clifford Dale, Cleveland, The Arthur H. Clark company, 1918.
  • Introduction to John B. Wyeth's Book John B. Wyeth went West in 1832 with the expedition to Oregon led by his cousin, Nathaniel J. Wyeth. John Wyeth's book is in the Public Domain.and was originally published as: Oregon, or A Short History of a Long Journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Region of the Pacific by Land, drawn up from the Notes and Oral Information of John B. Wyeth, One of the Party who left Mr Nathaniel J Wyeth, July 28th, 1832, Four Days March Beyond the Ridge of the Rocky Mountains and the Only One Who Has Returned to New England. Cambridge, MA, 1833
  • Exploring the West from Monticello - University of Virginia exhibit using historical maps to trace the westward exploration in North America. Features facts and maps from Columbus to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
  • Captain Robert Gray
  • The River of the West Joe Meek's Years in the Rocky Mountains This is the story of Joe Meek and his years as a mountainman. Meek came west in 1828 as an employee of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and spent the next twelve years engaged in the fur trade. He worked for the various fur companies and later became a free trapper. He often traveled with Bridger's brigade, and participated many of the important events of the period. In the later years of his life, he told his story to Oregon historian Frances Fuller Victor, who recorded the narrative we see here. Meek had a vivid memory of his years in the mountains, and he enlivened the account with many entertaining anecdotes of mountainman life.
  • Peter Skene Ogden's Snake Country Journals Peter Skene Ogden was a chief trader with the Hudson's Bay Company. In the period 1824-1829, he led five trapping expeditions to the "Snake Country" -- the upper reaches of the Columbia. Here are journals from each of those five expeditions.
  • JOURNAL OF ALEXANDER ROSS - SNAKE COUNTRY EXPEDITION, 1824 From Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 14, p. 366 (Dec. 1913)
  • Mountain Men and the Fur Trade Sources of the History of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West.

Lewis & Clark
Individual Biographies

Lewis & Clark
Sacagawea
Others
  • John Colter - brief bio of the youngest member of the Corps of Discovery
  • John Colter's Escape - from the History of Nebraska
  • Private Pierre Cruzatte from the PBS site
  • Seaman - the Newfoundland dog that accompanied the expedition. Journal excerpts provide information about the duties of Lewis's dog.



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