"The Great Encounter" Mountain Men & Explorers

City of Ogden and the Ogden River are named for him.

• Jim Bridger

• Etienne Provost

• Peter Skene Ogden

• James Beckworth

First to travel across Utah's length and width. Showed that no rivers flowed from the Great Salt Lake to the Pacific Ocean & rediscovered South Pass. Attacked by a Grizzly and killed by Comanche Indians.

• Jedediah Smith

• James Beckworth

• Joseph R. Walker

• Jim Bridger

African American Trapper who wrote a book about his life. Adopted by the Crow Indians. Discovered a pass in the high Sierra Nevada and blazed a trail through the mountains.

• Antoine Robidioux

• Mrs. Butterworth

• James Beckworth

• Etienne Provost

After his trapping days were over, he started a trading post in Wyoming. He explored the Great Salt Lake by Bullboat. Discovered it was not the ocean at all but a great salty lake.

• Jedediah Smith

• John Weber

• Jim Beckworth

• Jim Bridger

Established trading posts along the shores of Utah Lake and the Great Salt Lake. City of Provo and the Provo river and named after him.

• Jim Bedford

• Etienne Provost

• Antoine Robidoux

• Miles Goodyear

Spanish Priest who came to find a better route from Santa Fe to Monterey. Ended up in Utah almost by accident.

• Father Murphy

• Father Rivera

• Father Escalante

• Father Brown

Trapper who later worked as a guide, and established a trail across Nevada that became the main route for travel to California. His published reports of the route were popular to travelers heading to California.

• Jedediah Smith

• Miles Goodyear

• Jim Bridger

• Joseph R. Walker

The Spanish Trail went through Utah on it's way from Santa Fe to California. Trail was named after the Spanish priests who traveled it. True or False

• True

• False

A 'Cache' was a hiding place for treasures of beaver pelts and valuable furs.

• True

• False

American Trappers and Indians always got along.

• True

• False