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Hivernant
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how many of these mnt men had families?how did the women and children take care of things?inquireing minds need to know


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Posts: 105 | Location: northern vermont | Registered: 06 February 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Carson and Bridger definitely had family, as did Meek. Meek's daughter died with the Whitmans in Oregon. Kit's eldest daughter by his first wife went to convent school in St. Louis after her mother's death. Bridger ended up dying in Missouri with his family. A.J. Miller documented Walker with his wife. All of Kit Carson's descendants could be found in Taos or Boggsville. Osborne Russell died in California without ever marrying. He did have siblings. Zenas Leonard married and had three children, but that was after he left the mountains. Jedediah Smith never married but he did have at least a brother who settled his estate.


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I know that a few of them married late in life. Kit Carson eventually married and settled down to a sort of ranching life in New Mexico, although he continued to work as an army scout and guide for many more years. Jim Bridger had a daughter back in Missouri. He finished out his life living there with her and her family. John Colter left the mountains after 10 or 12 years and returned to farm and raise a family in Missouri.

Several others settled in California or Oregon and began families there.
Others returned East to live out their old age among family and friends.

Some married into one Indian tribe or another and finished their life living with them.

However, most of the old time mountain men simply faded away into obscurity, never to be seen or heard from again. No one knows what became of

I think that most of the "mountain men" only spent a few seasons trapping beaver in the mountains. Although some stayed at the trade for 10 years or more before finally leaving the mountains. However, very few of them spent their entire working careers at it. It was too harsh and dangerous a life. Those who survived the Indians, grissly bears, contrary horses and mules, starvation, blizzards, infection, and disease, often ended up crippled with severe arthritis or rhumatism probably caused by wading in the freezing mountain streams setting and checking beaver traps.


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that's good to know then ,I don't feel so bad about my life then thanks for the replys


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