The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends by Jim Motavalli

Author:Jim Motavalli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.); Biographies; Legends
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2019-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Louis Vasquez, a second-generation mountain man who took up the fur trade in 1772. (Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society)

Colter vowed not to visit the area again, and Fort Manuel was closed permanently in 1813. Colter then assisted William Clark, who’d become governor of the Missouri Territory that year, with mapping the Northwest for the 1814 edition of his journals. He had vital details of the Yellowstone and Wind River area.

Given all this, you’d think the last thing Louis Vasquez would do was pursue the family business, but in fact he did. Louis was twelve when his father died, but he evidently had fur trading in his blood. In 1823, he joined a fur-trading company led by General William Ashley (of the ill-fated Hugh Glass expedition). Vasquez obtained the first license to trade with the Pawnee that same year.

In 1832, Louis Vasquez served as clerk to Robert Campbell, and helped send a supply train to the Mountain Man Rendezvous (that year held at Pierre’s Hole). The next winter, he was trading with the Crows for furs, bringing eighty packs of buffalo robes to Fort William.

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