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Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881

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Personal name headingBridger, Jim, 1804-1881
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Variant(s)Bridger, James, 1804-1881
Bridger, James Felix, 1804-1881
Birth date1804-03-17
Death date1881-07-17
Place of birthRichmond (Va.)
Place of deathKansas City (Mo.)
Field of activityWest (U.S.)
AffiliationRocky Mountain Fur Company
Profession or occupationTrappers Explorers
Found inDodge, 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 FreĢmont, 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)