Trappers Point: Mountain Man Rendezvous Historic Site
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Explore the fascinating history of the Trappers Point Overlook, an exceptional vantage point that showcases the Green River Rendezvous Grounds National Historic Landmark. Situated at the confluence of Horse Creek and the Green River, this location was pivotal for six of the sixteen Rocky Mountain fur trade rendezvous events in the early 1800s. These rendezvous brought fur trappers together allowing them to exchange their beaver furs for vital supplies and goods. The allure of this spot extended beyond just the trappers, as thousands of Native Americans from various tribes also flocked to the gathering, arriving with an abundance of horses.
Join Clint Gilchrist, Executive Director of the Museum of the Mountain Man, as he takes you on a captivating visual journey across the panoramic expanse of the Green River overlook which is managed and owned by the Sublette County Historical Society.
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I was there in the early 1990s at a Rendezvous. Then went south to visit Ft. Bridger and Salt Lake. What a rotting stench that lake was. I did living history of the Mountain Men for 25 years.
I also built a Red River Cart with hand tools and I would bring it to the NMLRA Eastern Rendezvous. I also gave a tutorial about building it and its use by Fur Trade Companies and the Metis of Canada.
Thanks for that information!
Great video. Loved the aerial shots. Great explanation of the site. Will visit soon. Thank you!
Have fun! Lots of interesting places to see around Pinedale including Mountain Man Museum, Big Sandy River where Albert Bierstadt took a famous photo, Lander Road to South Pass and more!
I have been to two rendezvous we sold muskrat, beaver and mink. A lot of French men where there. I remember they would start talking to the Hudson Bay buyer and there volume would increase in the conversation until a price was agreed upon. This repeated with each trapper. That was back in 1964. I remember stripping naked to the waist so I could wade out into the slew to retrieve my traps. Breaking paper thin ice. Sometimes my twig and berries would get dunked. That was hard to take.
Haven't been there in years, but look forward to returning.
Wonderful place. I greatly enjoyed Clint showing me this majestic site.
Excellent video! A side note is that Catholics were at Fort Vancouver in the mid-1820s, so there were a lot of Catholics waiting for De Smet as he arrived there a few years later. The journals of mountain men Jedediah Smith and Harrison Rogers describe the horrific way the Catholics were treating enslaved Tribes in southern California in 1827 and 1828, after arriving there after the Rendezvous of 1826 and 1827.
Thanks for the comment and the additional information.
Kit Carson attended the rendezvous
Outstanding information.
Thanks for watching!
Great Videos bring on questions. The site where you are standing, looking out past you. Would that be US Govt land or private land, or a mix of both? TIA
It is a mix. Most of the immediate land around the Green River is Bureau of Land Management. The Trappers Point interpretation site is on land owned by Sublette County Historical Society. Thanks for the question.
Amazing how they all managed to get together with no technology, no satnav, no phones & no emails.
Centennial by James Michener brought me here
Isn't it a wonderful location?
Sure some history. Not much of the West not present.
Although we revere these pioneers, we must remind ourselves... their direct actions of destroying beavers all over the west caused the DESERT and terrible erosion we see today. The lands was MUCH DIFFERENT THEN... lush, grass, filled with lots of game... no beaver, no lushness,, Bring back the BEaver and restore our west. They took, we can replace.
Not sure you know what your talking about
… And climate means nothing, I don’t think so!
There’s no desert in western Washington. And beavers just cause terrible floods if left unchecked around here.
I’m older now but I destroyed a few beavers in my younger years.
The missionaries ruined the whole thing. No wonder people stopped coming. Talk about pouring cold water on a good time.