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This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.

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Name	DOB–DOD	Years active	Native Country	Comments
Albert, John	1806–1899	1834–1847
Ashley, William Henry	1778–1838	1822–1828
Baker, Jim	1818–1898	1839–1873
Barclay, Alex	1810–1855	1838–1855	Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West. After working in St. Louis as a bookkeeper and clerk, he worked at Bent's Old Fort. He then ventured westward where he was a trapper, hunter, and trader.
Beckwourth, Jim	1798–1866	1824–1866
Bent, Charles	1799–1847	1828–1846
Bent, William	1809–1869	1826–1869
Biggs, Thomas	1812–1855	1835–1855
Beaver, Black	1806–1880
Bridger, Jim	1804–1881	1822–1868
Bissonet dit Bijou, Joseph	1778–1836	1812–1836
Bissonette, Joseph	1818–1894
Bonneville, Benjamin	1796–1878	1832–1835	Washington Irving wrote about him, making him famous in his lifetime. The Bonneville Salt Flats are named after him.
Brown, John	1817–1889	1841–1849	Fur trapper, trader, rancher, and merchant in and around Pueblo, Colorado.
Brown, Kootenay	1839–1916	1862–1910
Richard Campbell	1824–	Led first trapper party (from Taos) to sell beaver pelts in California, 1827
Campbell, Robert	1804–1879	1825–1835
Carson, Kit	1809–1868	1825–1868	Carson became a frontier legend in his own lifetime through news articles and dime novels.
Charbonneau, Jean	1805–1866	1829–1866	An American Métis, son of Sacagawea and her French-Canadian husband, Toussaint Charbonneau.
Clyman, James	1792–1880	1823–1848
Coulter, John	1774–1813	1803–1810	During the winter of 1807–1808, he explored the area that is now Yellowstone and the Tetons. He is widely considered to be the first mountain man.
Craig, Bill	1807–1869
Culbertson, Alexander	1809–1879	1829–1858, 1868–1878
Drips, Andrew	1789–1860
Drouillard, George	1774–1810	1804–1810
Ebbert, George	1810–1890	1823–1836
Estes, Joel	1806–1875	1833–1875	Founder of Estes Park Colorado, a frontiersman, hunter, fur trader, explorer, gold prospector, and mountain man.
Ferris, Warren	1810–1873
Finlay, Jocko	1768–1828	1806–1828
Fallon, LeGros	d. 1848	1826–1848	Real name: William O. Fallon
Fitzpatrick, Thomas "Broken Hand"	1799–1854
Fraeb, Henry	d. 1841	1829–1841
Fontenelle, Lucien	1800–1840	1819–1840
Garcia, Andrew	1853–1943
Glass, Hugh	1780–1833	1800–1833
Godin, Antoine	1805–1836	1817–1836
Goodyear, Miles	1817–1849	1836–1847
Graham, Isaac	1800–1863	1830–1840
Greenwood, Caleb	1763–1850	1810–1834
Hamilton, Bill	1822–1908
Harris, Moses	1800–1849	He is also known as Black Harris, and to a lesser extent Black Squire and Major Harris.
Helm, Boone	1828–1864	1850–1864
Henry, Andrew	1775–1832	1809–1824
Jackson, David	1788–1837	1822–1832
Janis, Antoine	1822–1890	1836–1858
Kinman, Seth	1815–1888	1849–1864	American gold prospector of the California Gold Rush turn mountain man who hunted down a bear and made it into a chair for Abraham Lincoln in his present a presidential chair.
Kirker, James	1793–1852	1822–1849
Leonard, Zenas	1809–1857	1831–1857
Leroux, Antoine	1803–1861	1822–1861
Johnson, Liver-Eating	1824–1900	Real name: John Jeremiah Garrison Johnston
Lilly, Ben	1856–1936
Lisa, Manuel	1772–1820	1789–1820
Lupton, Lancaster	1807–1885	1835–1844
Medina, Mariano	1812–1878	Born in Taos, New Mexico, Medina settled in the Big Thompson Valley in 1858, establishing Fort Namaqua and the Namaqua settlement, now within Loveland, Colorado. He operated a trading post, stage station, and toll bridge.
Meek, Joe	1810–1875	1828–1850
Meek, Stephen	1805–1889	1827–1889
Moore, Bear	1850–1924	Real name: James Moore
Newell, Doc	1807–1869	1829–1869
Nidever, George	1802–1883	1830–1853
Ogden, Pete	1794–1854	1809–1847
Osborne Russell	1814- 1884	1834-1843	Osborne Russell Russell, Osborne (1921). Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains (1834-1843). Boise, Idaho: Symes-York Company. p.31.
Pattie, James Ohio	1804–1851?	1824–1830
Perkins, “Moccasin Bill”	1825–1904	1860–1904	William Henry Perkins (Not to be confused with Buffalo Bill. Not to be confused with Moccasin Bill, Cunning Serpent of Ojibwah")
Provost, Etienne	1785–1850	1822–1830
Rose, Edward	1780–1833	1807–1833
Russell, Osborne	1814–1892	1834–1845
Paxton, George	1821–1848
Purcell, James	fl. 1802–?
Sage, Rufus	1817–1893	1841–1844
Smith, Jedediah	1799–1831	1822–1831
Smith, John Simpson	1810–1871	1830–1871	Uncle John, Blackfoot Smith
Smith, Pegleg	1801–1866
Straw, Nat	1857–1941
Stevens, Montague	1859–1953
St. Vrain, Ceran	1802–1870
Sublette, Milton	1801–1837	1823–1835
Sublette, Bill	1799–1845	1823–1832
Tevanitagon, Pierre	?–1828	1822–1828	An Iroquois from Quebec
Tobin, Tom	1823–1904	1837–1878
Trask, Elbridge	1815–1863	1835–1852
Turner, John	1807	1847	Turner survived three Native American massacres, one in 1827 on the Colorado River with the Jedediah Smith expedition, one in 1828 with Smith on the Umpquah River, and one in 1835 on the Rogue River. He later used his survival skills to lead the second round of the Donner Party rescue effort.
Vasquez, Lou	1798–1868	1723–1858
Walker, Joe	1798–1876	1832–1863
Weaver, Pauline	1797–1867	1830–1867	His given name Powell was changed to the more-familiar to Spanish speakers Paulino, which in turn was changed to Pauline by English speakers
Weber, John	1779–1859	1822–1840
Wetzel, Lewis	1752–1808	1786–1791
Williams, Old Bill	1787–1849	1812–1849
Wooten, Dick	1816–1893
Wyeth, Nathaniel	1802–1856	1832–1837
Yount, Harry	1839–1924	1866–1924

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