WSP-52B
John Jenkins Designs
A welcome site in any campground when one it tired, cold and hungry!
Mountain Men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880’s, with a peak in the 1830’s. Approximately 3,000 mountain men ranged the mountains between 1820 and 1840, the peak beaver harvesting period.
Whilst there were many free trappers most mountain men were employed by major fur companies. The life of a company man was almost militarized. The men had mess groups, hunted and trapped in brigades and always reported to the head of the trapping party, who was known as a “boosway”, which was a bastardization of the French term bourgeois.