British Fur Companies
Company that is one of the oldest companies in the world and created their base in Northwest Canada
Hudson's Bay Co
Company created by John Jacob Astor
Pacific Fur Co
What is the animal of choice for fur pelts?
Beavers!
What Native American tribe was Johnson's enemy?
Age that Joe left to join a fur trade expedition
18 years old
They were founded in Montreal in 1780s and were known as Nor'westers
North West Co.
Company founded by William Ashley and Andrew Henry in St. Louis
Rocky Mountain Fur Co
True or False: Mountain men lived lives in the mountains and had lots of contact with settlers while they were fur trapping
False - They were isolated and usually only saw people during the summer rendezvous
True or False - You can walk through a Indian graveyard and have no consequences
What did Joe learn in Rocky Mountain College?
Everything to do with wilderness and how to become a good trapper, tracker, and survivor
True or False: the North West Co. had a trading post in Walla Walla.
True!
Summer meeting for all traders, trappers, Indians, etc. to go and trade and sell their goods
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous
Mountain men, company reps, old time French-Canadian trappers, traders from other companies, and Indians
What was the other animal Johnson learned to kill and skin for its fur?
Bear
Two rivers that Joe trapped extensively along for the Rocky Mountain Fur Co
Snake and Columbia Rivers
Headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Co
Fort Vancouver
The number of years it took for Rocky Mtn Fur Co to make over 3M dollars in fur
15 years
Dangers that mountain men faced - name at least two
attacks by wild animals like bears or wolves, conflicts with Indian tribes, losing companionship to disease, starvation, elements, or hostile native tribes, being killed by those things too
What did the Crow give Johnson in return for this gift of pelts and skins?
A wife
geographic knowledge of Oregon Country for settlers, secured status for Oregon Territory, and bridged worlds of wilderness trapper and frontier man
This was the problem for fur trapping companies in the 1800s. Hint: it has to do with people
Settlers and/or missionaries
Fort that was taken by the British in the War of 1812. Hint: it was not renamed yet
Fort Astoria
Legacy of mountain men - name one contribution
changed the west, lead missionaries, created trails for hunting and Oregon Trail, and helped settlers
What Johnson did after the death of his adopted son and wife
Lived an isolated life and killed a lot of Crow Indians in retaliation
the President that Joe visited after the Whitman Massacre to ask for Oregon Territory Bill to be signed
President James Polk