J. Cecil Alter

Heading to the west in 1822, James Bridger took to the Rocky Mountain wilderness like one born to it, and soon became one of the West's most skillful single-handed hunters and beaver trappers, eventually to take the leadership of a trapper's brigade; and subsequently to accept the responsibilities of proprietorship of a major fur-trapping and trading enterprise. James Bridger, known as Jim Bridger (1804-1881), was among the foremost mountain men,...