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William Craig (frontiersman) William Craig (1807, Greenbrier County, Virginia – 1869, Idaho) was an American frontiersman and trapper. [1] He left his Virginia home as a young man and headed west, after allegedly killing a man in self-defense. He trapped with the Sublettes ( William and Milton) and Jedediah Smith in the Blackfoot country ...
The city is named for Colonel William Craig (1809–69), a mountain man who had a Nez Perce wife. He settled at Lapwai near his father-in-law Hin-mah-tute-ke-kaikt or James in 1840 when he gave up being a fur trapper due to the collapse of the market for beaver.
Ashley, William Henry: 1778–1838 1822–1828 ... He is widely considered to be the first mountain man. [5] Craig, Bill: 1807–1869
William Sherley "Old Bill" Williams (January 3, 1787 – March 14, 1849) was a noted mountain man and frontiersman, known as Lone Elk to the Native Americans. Fluent in several languages, Williams served as an interpreter for the government and led several expeditions to the West. He married into the Osage Nation, having two children who both ...
Craig DeLeeuw Robertson (July 1, 1948 – August 9, 2023) was an American firearm collector who received three felony charges, including threatening the president of the United States, interstate threats against government officials, and threats against federal law enforcement officers. [ 1] On August 9, 2023, FBI agents attempted to lawfully ...
Andrew Henry (fur trader) Major Andrew Henry ( c. 1775 – January 10, 1832) was an American miner, army officer, frontiersman, trapper and entrepreneur. Alongside William H. Ashley, Henry was the co-owner of the successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred", for the famous mountain men working for their firm from ...
William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his four brothers. Later he became one of the company's co-owners, utilizing the riches of the Oregon ...
The 1900 U.S. Census enumerated William T. Hamilton, age 77, widower, in Stillwater, Carbon County, Montana, and recorded his occupation as Quartz Miner (indicating a miner who typically mined gold from lode deposits rather than from placer deposits). Hamilton lived in Columbus, Montana by 1903 when he was one of the co-founders of the Pioneers ...