An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery ...

The best became legendary, like John Colter, Kit Carson, and Jim Bridger. Mountain men roamed the wilds alone or in small groups, becoming skilled in survival, exploration, and trading furs with ...

They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that ... “When I grew up, I read books on Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, and Daniel Boone,” says Scott “Doc Ivory” Olsen, a ...