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Title: The Autobiography of a Mountain Man 1805-1889
Description: Brief autobiography by Stephen Hall Meek written before his death in either 1884 or 1889. An introduction and notes have been included with the 2007 edition. Meek writes that he was born in Virginia in 1805 and relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 25 to enter the fur trade and to explore the American west. Meek describes his interactions with various fur trading companies and prominent individuals involved with the western fur trade.
Date: 1948
Object Type: Book

Title: Map of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers and Their Tributaries
Description: Continuation of title: explored by Capt. W. F. Raynolds Top[ographical] Eng[ineers] and 1st Lieut. H. E. Maynadier 10th Inf[antry] Assistant, 1859-60. To accompany a report to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers. Lt. Col. Hartman Bache in charge. Prepared to accompany the Geological Report of F. V. Hayden, M.D. Geologist to the Expedition.Includes the Cheyenne River, the Black Hills, the Bad Lands, Fort Laramie, the Little Missouri River, the Powder River, the Tongue River, the Big Horn River, the Big Horn Mountains, the Sweetwater River, the Wind River, the Platte River, the Popo Agie River, the Snake River, the Yellowstone River, the Missouri River, and the Three Forks of the Missouri River.
Date: 1868
Object Type: Map

Title: Jim Bridger
Description: Photo and entry about James Bridger, or Jim Bridger (1804-1881), "[m]ountain man, fur trader, and guide" of Westport and a native of Virginia.
Date: 1905-06-20
Object Type: Book

Title: The Yellowstone National Park Historical and Descriptive
Description: Chapter and appendix of the book about the life of Jim Bridger, the discoverer of the later Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, first observed by him in the early 1840s and known about by him as early as 1824, with descriptions of his fantastic observations in the area. Photo and biographical sketch of him in the appendix, including Bridger Lake named for him in Yellowstone Park.
Date: 1897
Object Type: Book

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