mountain men
Wilderness fur traders
Mountain men were fur trappers and wilderness guides who lived in the Rocky Mountains during the early 19th century, trading beaver pelts and navigating territory largely unknown to European Americans.
The term evokes rugged self-reliance and survival skills: He dressed like one of the old mountain men.
Today it may describe anyone living an isolated, outdoorsy existence in remote terrain.
- fur trappingCatching animals for pelts
- Kit CarsonNineteenth-century mountain man
- rendezvousScheduled meeting at agreed location
- trading postRemote commerce station
- buckskinTanned deer pelt
coonskin cap · beaver pelts · beaver hat · pioneer · explorer · American frontier · fur trade · wilderness · pack mule · buffalo hunters · canoes · adventurer · lone wolf · grizzly · long rifle · rifle · moccasins · lodges
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- Westward ExpansionOregon Trail, Lewis and Clark, covered wagons, pioneers, frontier
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Frontier Figurespioneers, settlers, homesteaders, explorers, trappers
mountain mensettlers
Those who establish homes
farmers · homesteaders · sodbusters · ranchers · townspeople
mountain mencity dwellers
People living in metropolises
urbanites · townsfolk · merchants · shopkeepers · bankers
mountain menplainsmen
Inhabitants of flat grasslands
flatlanders · prairie settlers · lowlanders · seamen · sailors
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