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Rocky Mountain Fur Company

This company was the first fur company for which Jim Bridger worked.

American Fur Company

This company merged with the first fur company for which Jim Bridger worked.

Hudson Bay Company

This was a British company.

Missouri Fur Company

Blackfeet Indians cut up a band of trappers that belonged to his company on Pryor's Fork of the Yellowstone.

The Rendezvous, Yearly Rendezvous

This event took place in the summer around the beginning of July.

Oregon Trail

This was the main route for emigrant wagon trains from the east.

Great Basin

This place was a large valley in the Utah Territory, centered around the Great Salt Lake.

Fort Bridger

This place was built on the Black Fork of the Green River.

Fort Laramie

In 1835, this place was bought.

Squaw Man

This was a white man who married an Indian woman and moved in with the...

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