Jim Bridger, once a teenaged mountain man, became the most dependable and renowned trailblazer of the vast lands of the American West. For more than...
Knight of the Rockies
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Mountain Man
Shooting Back
The Many Faces of the Mountain Man A year ago, True West’s cover featured the fine art painting by ZS Liang titled Mountain Man. Liang’s masterpiece...
The Seekers
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 Forgotten Founding Father
Daniel Boone and the Birth of the Frontier Movement
Death of A Mountain Man
Jedidiah Smith’s Last Trail.