LC control no. | n 50041436 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881 |
Variant(s) | Bridger, James, 1804-1881 Bridger, James Felix, 1804-1881 |
Birth date | 1804-03-17 |
Death date | 1881-07-17 |
Place of birth | Richmond (Va.) |
Place of death | Kansas City (Mo.) |
Field of activity | West (U.S.) |
Affiliation | Rocky Mountain Fur Company |
Profession or occupation | Trappers Explorers |
Found in | Dodge, G. M. Biographical sketch of James Bridger, 1904. LC data base, 11-23-87 (hdg.: Bridger, James, 1804-1881; usage: Bridger, James, 1804-1881; Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881) Utah educational review, 1927: volume 21, number 2, page 80 (James Bridger in Utah, by J. Alter) Wikipedia, 21 February 2017 (Jim Bridger; James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804, Richmond, Virginia--July 17, 1881, Kansas City, Missouri) was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites; Jim Bridger had a strong constitution that allowed him to survive the extreme conditions he encountered walking the Rocky Mountains from what would become southern Colorado to the Canada-US border; he had conversational knowledge of French, Spanish and several native languages; he would come to know many of the major European American explorers of the early west, including Kit Carson, George Armstrong Custer, Hugh Glass, John FreĢmont, Joseph Meek, and John Sutter; Bridger was a young contemporary of British and American pathfinders including Peter Skene Ogden, Jedediah Smith, and William Sublette; in 1830, Smith and his associates sold their fur company to Bridger and his associates naming it the Rocky Mountain Fur Company; Bridger was part of the second generation of mountain men and pathfinders who explored the American West that followed the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804) |