What are you listening to?
- Thread starter Daddyusmaximus
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Some of these songs are older than dirt. Can we get some newer tunes!
Jim F. Bridger 1804 - 1881
Frontiersman and buckskinner.
United States Cavalry Scout.
Known as the Great Mediator for various Native tribes and helped avert numerous tribal wars as well as forge relations with the US government.
In 1825 during an expedition with a fur trading party in the Rockies, the group Bridger was with was attacked by a grizzly bear, only to find that their rifles and powder horns had been stolen by bandits the night before. Bridger reportedly killed the bear with his hunting knife during a life or death fight after it mauled one of the campers to death.
Married into the Flathead and Shoshone and attained status as 'White Chief' among them for his expert mediation and negotiation skills.
Scout for the Union Pacific Railroad (1868-1872)
Discovered, explored, and founded the first American outposts at Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Montana Territories (1824-1830)
ON THE RIVER - WHISKEY MYERS
MOUNTAIN SONG - FLATLAND CAVALRY
RESTLESS WAYS - GETHEN JENKINS
WITH THE WOLVES - DIRTWATER
Frontiersman and buckskinner.
United States Cavalry Scout.
Known as the Great Mediator for various Native tribes and helped avert numerous tribal wars as well as forge relations with the US government.
In 1825 during an expedition with a fur trading party in the Rockies, the group Bridger was with was attacked by a grizzly bear, only to find that their rifles and powder horns had been stolen by bandits the night before. Bridger reportedly killed the bear with his hunting knife during a life or death fight after it mauled one of the campers to death.
Married into the Flathead and Shoshone and attained status as 'White Chief' among them for his expert mediation and negotiation skills.
Scout for the Union Pacific Railroad (1868-1872)
Discovered, explored, and founded the first American outposts at Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Montana Territories (1824-1830)
ON THE RIVER - WHISKEY MYERS
MOUNTAIN SONG - FLATLAND CAVALRY
RESTLESS WAYS - GETHEN JENKINS
WITH THE WOLVES - DIRTWATER
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