USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A fur trapper was a mountain man who, in today’s terms, would be called a free agent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Voyageurs ("travelers” in French) were men hired to work for the fur trade companies to transport trade goods throughout the vast territory to rendezvous posts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fur trappers, also known as Mountain Men, were the first white men to enter Cache Valley and the surrounding areas [1]. Ephraim Logan and Peter Skene Ogden, the names of whom still mark the areas they explored, entered as early as 1824 [2].

Detailed explanation-4: -“Mountain Men” was the name given to trappers who were lured west by the profits of the fur trade. They moved into Oregon Country, the huge, barely chart-ed area beyond the Rockies, where the forests and mountains were home to beaver and other fur-bearing animals. These men opened the way for later set-tlers.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kit Carson Born in Kentucky in 1809, he fled a saddlemaker’s apprenticeship at age 16 and spent several years working as a fur trapper, teamster and buffalo hunter in the West.