Jim Bridger

Jim Bridger

male, deceased (1881)
native languages, European American, indigenous languages of the Americas, Pacific Ocean, American, hudson bay company…Fur trader, AmericanFurCompany, Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Jim or James Bridger (March, 1804 - July 17, 1881) was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the...
Robert Stuart

Robert Stuart

male
war of 1812, Captain Thorn, Tonquin, Pacific Fur Company, Northern Department, AmericanFurCompany…North West Company, Fur trade
Robert Stuart (1785-1848) was the son of David Stuart, a partner of John Jacob Astor who as one of the North West Company men, or Nor'westers,...
Ramsay Crooks

Ramsay Crooks

male
Robert McClellan, Oregon Territory, AmericanFurCompany, Great Lakes, astoria, Fur trader
Ramsay Crooks (2 January 1787 - 6 June 1859) immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1803 and he worked in a trading post on the Great Lakes. With...
Peter Skene Ogden

Peter Skene Ogden

male, deceased (1854)
Explorer of British Columbia, Skeene, North-West Company, fur trapper, AmericanFurCompany, American West…Hudson's Bay Company, Fur trader, hudson bay company
Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein or Skeen), (baptised 12 February, 1790 - September 27, 1854) was a fur trapper and a Canadian explorer...
Pierre Chouteau Jr.

Pierre Chouteau Jr.

male, deceased (1865)
Buffalo, war of 1812, thomas hart benton, From St. Louis, osage, From South Dakota…AmericanFurCompany
Pierre Chouteau, Jr. (January 19, 1789-September 6, 1865) (also referred to as Pierre Cadet Chouteau) was a member of the Chouteau fur trading...
William Beaumont

William Beaumont

male, deceased (1853)
Alexis St. Martin, fistula, war of 1812, American, mackinac island, physician…AmericanFurCompany
William Beaumont (November 21, 1785 - April 25, 1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology"...

Kenneth McKenzie

male
Buffalo, american buffalo, Yellowstone River, Kenneth MacKenzie, AmericanFurCompany, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site…Hudson's Bay Company, North West Company, Fur trader
Kenneth McKenzie, also known as Kenneth MacKenzie, was nicknamed the “King of the Missouri”, for as a fur trader for American Fur Company in the...
Jim Baker

Jim Baker

male, deceased (1898)
frontiersman, snake river, Sioux, Mountain Man, Fur trade, arapaho…AmericanFurCompany
Jim Baker (1818-1898), trapper, scout and guide was a friend of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson and one of General John C. Fremont's favorite scouts. He...
Norman Kittson

Norman Kittson

male, deceased (1888)
Red River Trails, St. Joseph, Canadian, Rupert's Land, entrepreneur, railway…Fur trade, Fur trader, Hudson's Bay Company, AmericanFurCompany
Norman Wolfred Kittson (5 March 1814 - 10 May 1888) was variously a fur trader, steamboat-line operator, and railway entrepreneur. Although born in...
John H. Kinzie

John H. Kinzie

male, deceased (1865)
from Chicago, AmericanFurCompany, Michigan Territory, Fort Dearborn Massacre, John Harris Kinzie, Fort Winnebago
</gallery>;John Harris Kinzie (born July 7, 1803 in Sandwich, Ontario-June 21, 1865) was the eldest son of John Kinzie, Chicago's first white...