Peter Skene Ogden

Peter Skene Ogden

male, deceased (1854)
Explorer of British Columbia, Skeene, North-West Company, furtrapper, American Fur Company, American West…Fur trader
Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein or Skeen), (baptised 12 February, 1790 - September 27, 1854) was a fur trapper and a Canadian explorer...

John Day

male
columbia river, river than now bears his name, Fort Astoria, Astor Expedition, Pacific Fur Company, Eastern Oregon…furtrapper, trapper, Fur trader, Fur trade
John Day (abt. 1770-February 16, 1820) was an American hunter and fur trapper in the old Oregon Country, which term generally designated the area...
Benjamin Bonneville

Benjamin Bonneville

male, deceased (1878)
United States Army officer, West Point graduate, French American, French, United States Army, American…Fur trade, Fur trader, furtrapper
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (April 14, 1796 - June 12 1878) was a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer...

Stephen Meek

male, deceased (1889)
Member of the Provisional Government of Oregon, settler, Wagon Train, Fur trader, Oregon Trail, Pioneer…furtrapper, Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Stephen Meek (b. July 4, 1805 - d. January, 1889) was a fur trapper and guide in the American west, most notably a guide on a large wagon train...

Caleb Greenwood

male
from California, Sierra Nevada, California Trail, Sutter's Fort, furtrapper, Historic California
"Old" Caleb Greenwood was a Western U.S. fur trapper and trail guide. In 1844 he, along with Isaac Hitchcock, guided the influential...

George Nidever

male, deceased (1883)
from California, Exploration, American, Mountain Man, memoir, explorer…furtrapper
George Nidever (also spelled Nidiver was a mountain man, explorer, fur trapper, memoirist and sailor of German descent born in Tennessee. His...
Elbridge Trask

Elbridge Trask

male, deceased (1863)
American, Mountain Man, Fur trade, Oregon Country, furtrapper, Tillamook Bay
Elbridge Trask (July 15, 1815-June 23, 1863) was an American fur trapper and mountain man in the Oregon Country. Immortalized by a series of modern...
Rick Swenson

Rick Swenson

male, 59 years old
Alaska dog musher, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Two Rivers, King of the Iditarod, from Willmar, Minnesota, 2005 Iditarod…furtrapper
Rick Swenson, sometimes known as the "King of the Iditarod", (born 1950 in Willmar, Minnesota), is an American dog musher who has won the...

Gervais Nolan

male
lake superior, Fur trader, athabasca, furtrapper, Jean Baptiste Lalande, Northwest Fur Company
Gervais Nolan (circa 1800? - 1857) was a 19th century French Canadian fur trapper, businessman and real estate magnate prominent in the American...
Dorothy Page

Dorothy Page

female, deceased (1989)
Alaska Native, purchase of alaska, Alaska Natives, dogsled racing, 20th centuries, 1,600 km…furtrapper
Dorothy G. Page (died November 16, 1989) was best known as "Mother of the Iditarod", the 1,049-mile (about 1,600 km) dog sled race across the U.S....