Keywords

Mountain Men, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, fur trade

Abstract

As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 150th anniversary as the first such park in the world, it is fascinating to rediscover the records of mountain men and and that the same features that enthrall modern visitors captivated them as well. “Sonder” is the realization that other people with whom we share the mortal coil have lived lives just as complex and wonderous as our own. Americans can no better appreciate this than when they stand in Yellowstone National Park today and marvel at the same grandeur mountain men witnessed two hundred years ago.

Original Publication Citation

Buckley, Jay H., and Nathan Benavidez. “Mountain Men Reveal Yellowstone: Observations of Daniel Potts, Warren Ferris, and Osborne Russell in the 1820s and 1830s.” Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal 16 (2022): 92-127. ISBN: 978-0-9855361-0-2

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2022

Publisher

Museum of the Mountain Man

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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