Mountain Men of Idaho
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74 Short Stories of Idaho's Mountain Men
They were hunters, trappers, bear fighters, Indian killers who lived off the land and survived annual rendezvous. The sun, the wind, the harsh winter climate tanned and dried and leathered their faces until those without beards (and there were a few) had to roll up their sleeves to bare white arms as proof of their Caucasian identity.
Darcy Williamson
I am an award-winning author of more than twenty-three books, a Rocky Mountain herbalist, and naturalist. As an independent business woman I own From The Forest, an herbal business that specialized in apprentice training as well as seminars and educational programs. My hobbies include hiking, camping, cross-country skiing, and gardening ~ enjoying the great outdoor opportunities provided by my central Idaho setting. Aside from my eBooks, I currently have three books published by Caxton Printers, Ltd., (Basque Cooking and Lore; River Tales of Idaho and The Rocky Mountain Wild Foods Cookbook) plus two recently published titles, Healing Plants of the Rocky Mountains and McCall's Historic Shore Lodge.
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Mountain Men of Idaho - Darcy Williamson
Mountain Men of Idaho
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Darcy J. Williamson
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Contents
1. Mountain Man Jargon
2. Andrew Henry
3. Fort Henry
4. Huge Glass Left for Dead
5. Glass Rejoins Major Henry
6. Glass Retrieves His Rifle
7. John Colter’s Sculpture
8. David Thompson ~ Kullyspell House
9. Who was Josh Jones
10. The Hunt Party Heads Down the Snake
11. Hunt and Crooks Reunite
12. The Cache at Cauldron Lynn
13. Raiders of the Cache
14. Cache Gets Hit Again
15. McClellan’s Insubordination
16. The Fate of John Reed’s Party
17. Isaac P. Rose and the Grizzly
18. Perpetual Motion
Mackenzie
19. William Kittson ~ A Novice in the Country
20. Ignace Hatchioraquasha
21. Ambush at Lemhi Pass
22. Brave Old Bastony
23. Johnson Gardner
24. Jedediah Smith and the 105 Beaver Pelts
25. Thomas Smith Heads West
26. Thomas Smith’s New Name
27. Peg Leg Smith ~ Horse Thief
28. Peg-Leg’s Last Raid
29. Peg-Leg ~ Entrepreneur
30. Wives of Peg-Leg
31. The Thawing of Milton Sublette
32. Alexander Ross and Prince
33. Alexander Ross Attends Indian Peace Congress
34. A Trapper’s Legacy
35. Winter Quarters on the Portneuf
36. Saved by the Storm
37. Jim Beckwith’s Run
38. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
39. Kit Carson Joins The Company
40. Frances Payette of Fort Boise
41. Ogoroho
42. The Pursuit
43. Mark Head and the Loaned Rifles
44. Camp Keepers
45. Blackfeet and Buffalo Steak
46. Tom Fitzpatrick ~ Late for the Rendezvous
47. Agents
Vanderburgh and Drips
48. Nathaniel J. Wyeth
49. Battle Near Pierre’s Hole
50. Damaris and Plante Never Return
51. Captain Bonneville ~ Unprofitable Year
52. Montero’s Take of Woe
53. John Work’s Brigade of 1832
54. Christmas Feast with the Nez Perce ~ 1832
55. Wyeth’s Desert Crossing
56. Meek and Reese ~ On Guard
57. Flag Raising at Fort Hall
58. First Sermon Delivered on the Future State of Idaho
59. Joseph Gale ~ Unpopular Leader
60. I Told You So
61. Building a Bullboat
62. The Trials and Tribulations of Captain Thing
63. Francis Ermatinger ~ Holding Down the Fort
64. Col. William Craig ~ Idaho’s First White Settler
65. Joe Meek ~ Floundering Across Idaho
66. Bohemian John ~ Killed by a Bear
67. Rocky Mountain Pete
68. Beaver Dick
69. Beaver Dick’s Tragic Loss
70. The Buryin’ of a Mountain man
71. Ordeal of the Carlin Hunting Party
72. Death of George Colgate
73. Cougar Dave
74. Buckskin Billy
1 Mountain Man Jargon
ARTISANS ~ Members of larger trading posts who worked as blacksmiths, carpenters and boat builders.
BOURGEOIS ~ The person in charge of a trading post and its field expeditions.
BULL-BOAT ~ A boat made of a large animal skin (preferably buffalo), stretched over a frame of willow or cottonwood poles.
CACHE ~ Property or goods of trappers temporarily hidden in a carefully concealed pit.
CAMP KEEPER ~ The person who skinned beaver, cleaned, dressed and dried the pelts, took care of the stock and attended to other duties of the trapper’s camp. There was usually one camp keeper for every two trappers.
CLERK ~ The first in line for promotion to the rank of bourgeois, and in the latter’s absence, preformed his duties.
DUGOUT ~ A wooden canoe dug out from the trunk of a tree (usually cottonwood.)
FREE TRAPPER ~ A trapper not bound by contract or agreement with any fur-trading company.
MANGEURS DE LARD ~ Imported Canadians who were used as raw recruits in the fur trade. Fed principally on pork, they were called mangeurs de lard. This term came to be used in ridicule to denote greenhorns.
PACKS ~ Bundles of furs securely wrapped for transport to market. Each pack usually contained eighty beaver pelts and weighed around 100 lbs.
PEMMICAN ~ Buffalo meat which was sliced paper thin and dried, then pounded to a fine powder and mixed with melted buffalo cow fat. Often dried serviceberries were added. The mixture was packed into hide sacks and used as a staple when fresh meat was unavailable. Pemmican would retain its edible quality for a number of years.
RENDEZVOUS ~ An annual meeting of trappers and Indians for the purpose of trafficking furs and purchasing equipment for the ensuing year.
VOYAGEURS ~ French Creoles hired to navigate canoes or other crafts along streams and rivers. They were usually devout Catholics and almost always illiterate.
2 Andrew Henry
Andrew Henry was born in Pennsylvania around 1775. Having been born to a life of affluence and social prominence, he prospered and thrived. He had developed into a tall man with a swarthy dark complexion and a taste for the finer things in life. Andrew wore the latest fashions, dined in the finest homes and wooed the ladies by playing quixotic melodies on his violin. He also kept himself active in various organizations, often holding high positions within their structure; and being civic-minded, served as election judge and juryman. Then, at the age of thirty-three, he apparently tired of the easy life.
In 1809, Andrew Henry joined Manuel Lisa, Jean Pierre Chouteau and seven others in organizing the Missouri Fur Company. Not content to operate behind the scenes from an office in St. Louis, Henry donned buckskins and headed to the Rocky Mountains. In the Rockies he contended with the hardships of the trade; grizzly bear attacks; fighting Blackfoot warriors; hunger; cold; thirst; exhaustion.
Many of the trappers working for the Missouri Fur Company were from various Indian tribes. The Missouri Fur Company had relied on Indians to do the actual trapping and hunting that produced the furs. The furs were then brought to trading posts where, with increasing frequency, the Indian trappers were given liquor as an actual medium of exchange. The pattern was so firmly established that it was difficult to conduct business without a substantial supply of alcohol. In July of 1822, a law was enacted prohibiting the sale or trade of alcohol to Indians.
Andrew Henry