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unusual facts about mountain man



Bridger Bowl Ski Area

The ski area and mountain range are named after noted mountain man Jim Bridger, and is accessed from state highway 86.

Henry H. Spalding

After some logistical complications, on May 25 they joined the Fur Company caravan led by mountain men Milton Sublette and Thomas Fitzpatrick.

Yarnell, Arizona

Rich Hill in Weaver was the richest placer gold discovery in Arizona, discovered in 1863 by a party led by the mountain man Pauline Weaver and the prospector A. H. Peeples.


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Alex Cord

Ben Sanford is one of the original settlers of the Laramie area and is called a "Mountain Man."

California Casualty

Edward J. Fraughton, a well-known artist from Utah was commissioned to create a sculpture of a mountain man.

Dan Haggerty

In Abducted, he is a contemporary mountain man bringing a problem son to awareness.

Earl Durand

A 1974 Hollywood movie showed Durand in a more romantic light, portraying him as a mountain man intent on securing his own freedom from an oppressive and unfair local sheriff {a co-star was Martin Sheen}.

Greenwood State Beach

The beach is named after Britton Bailey Greenwood, son of famed mountain man Caleb Greenwood.

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward

Coward got the role as the murderous toothless mountain man in Deliverance when Burt Reynolds remembered him from working together at the park early in his career.

John Albert

John David Albert (1806–1899), mountain man, born in Hagerstown, Maryland

KXKZ

One of the station's notable personalities is "Mountain Man", a semi-regular on the show Duck Dynasty.

Spring Mountain Ranch State Park

Mountain Man Bill Williams, a member of the raiding party, brought his band of horses through Red Rock Canyon where he rested the horses from the hard trip across the desert.

Thunder Butte

Literary references to Thunder Butte appear in the story of Hugh Glass, a mountain man/trapper with the 1823 party of William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry, which was traveling overland from Fort Kiowa to Fort Henry at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.

Weaver, Arizona

The town was named after mountain man Pauline Weaver, who worked as a guide for the group of prospectors who made the discovery.