The Mountain Men
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- Mountain Men
- 1. What did they actually do?
- They were trappers, and collected animal fur for hats and clothes
- Rendezvous
- Many of them spent their money on gambling and alcohol here
- Occurred once a year where they met to trade
- This happened from 1825 to 1840
- 2. Problems they faced
- Hostile Indians
- Bears
- River crossings
- Lack of accomodation
- Lice in clothes (they put their clothes on ant hills to kill the lice)
- 3. Ways of solving their problems
- befriending Indians
- They would often marry the Indians women
- This gave them a place to stay
- Trading guns and alcohol with Indians
- befriending Indians
- 4. Affect they had on the Indians
- Introduced to weapons and drink
- Cannibal Phil went on a hunting trip and ate his wife
- They Scalped unfriendly Indians
- Brought small pox to them
- 5. The end of the Mountain Men trapping
- 1836
- Beaver hats became out of fashion in the East and Europe
- Only 120 trappers
- 1837
- Trappers where, therefore no longer welcome
- Smallpox killed the Indian friends of the mountain men
- 1836
- 1. What did they actually do?
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