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Mountain Man

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This article is about the North American trappers and explorers. For the tv series, see Mountain Men (2012 TV series). For the film, see The Mountain Men. For the 2009 song, see Mountain Man (song). For the singing trio, see Mountain Man (music group). A mountain man is a trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). They were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails (widened into wagon roads) allowing Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains traveling over roads explored and in many cases, physically improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies originally to serve the mule train based inland fur trade. They arose in a natural geographic and economic expansion driven by the lucrative earnings available in the North American fur trade, in the wake of the...

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  • Mountain Man, 2009
  • Made the Harbor, 2010

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SongAnimal Tracks
ArtistMountain Man
AlbumMade The Harbor
LabelBella Union
Year2010
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