It has become somewhat of a tradition at True West magazine to do a mountain man on the December cover. In the past two decades we have run at least...
The Seekers
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Kit Carson
Ewing Young
When the free trappers banded together for self-preservation, they usually elected a partisan or captain to act as leader. He was usually a man with...
The Bear Flag Revolt They declared the creation of the California Republic. Sporting a battle flag with a picture of a grizzly bear on it, the rebels began calling themselves Bear Flaggers...
In the spring of 1846 Captain John C. Fremont and Kit Carson were on another of their famous mapping expeditions in the Far West with a 60-man...
Kit Carson’s Horseback Duel
Kit Carson vs The “Great Bully of the Mountains.”