Jim Bridger
Jim or James Bridger (March 1804 – July 17th 1881) was one of the explorers, trappers and guides of the Western American for the period 1820-1840. It met in particular Brigham Young, Kit Carson, John Fremont, Joseph Meek and John Sutter.
In the 19 years age, Bridger took part in Upper Missouri Expedition carried out by the general William Ashley. It was one of the first White to see the Geyser S of the Yellowstone. During the winter 1824-1825, it arrived in the area of the Big lake Salted which it took for part of the Pacific Ocean.
In 1830, Bridger and others Trappeur S founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, which entered in competition with the Hudson Bay Company and the American Fur Company in the Traite furs of beaver. In 1838, it built with Louis Vasquez a station of draft on the Piste of Oregon, named Fort Bridger later, on Western bank of the Green River in current Utah.
In 1835 he married a woman of the Amerindian tribe of the Flathead with which he had three children. After the death of its wife in 1846, it Maria with the girl of a chief Shoshone, who died during his childbirth three years later. In 1850, it remaria with another Shoshone which gave him two children. He discovered a passage which made it possible to shorten the track of Oregon (Bridger' S Pass). This passage was thereafter selected by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Interstate 80.
It was used as guide during the Powder River Forwarding carried out against the Sioux and the Cheyennes. Become sick, it turned over to Westport in 1868.
Places baptized in the honor of Jim Bridger
- Strong Bridger
- Strong Bridger (Wyoming)
- Bridger (Montana)
- Bridger Mountains (Wyoming)
- Bridger Mountains (Montana)
- Bridger Wilderness
- Bridger Bowl Ski Area
- National Bridger-Nipple Forest
- Jim Bridger Middle School, Las Vegas
- James Bridger Middle School, Independence (Missouri)
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