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Tom Fitzpatrick: Trapper, Scout and Indian Agent

by | Nov 22, 2016 | True West Blog

One of America's most important frontiersman, scout and guide is also one of the least known.  Stories abound about Joe Walker, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and Jedidiah Smith, but one of the greatest of them all was an Irishman named Tom Fitzpatrick. Born in County Craven, Ireland in 1799, he came to America around 1816. Although he came from a well to do family he ran away from home when he was seventeen


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