Jim Bridger | Mormons (Part 3)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This is part 3 of the series on Jim Bridger. For the previous 2 installments see the links below. Fur trading no longer lucrative, Jim Bridger and a business partner decide to open up a trading post of their own, dubbing it Fort Bridger. Wasn’t long before Jim began doing brisk business, both to travelers along the Oregon Trail and those brave enough to try their luck on the Hasting’s Cutoff; migrants like the ill-fated Donner Party. Bad luck aside, Bridger’s fort – and his Green River ferry – did so well financially that his new neighbors, the daggum Mormons, decided to take it from him. By force! Also discussed in this episode: Magic underwear, Sister wives, the Whitman Massacre, Joseph Meek, Henry Fraeb, and Louis Vasquez! Jim Bridger Pt 1 | Ashley's 100 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/ Jim Bridger Pt 2 | Bugs Boys - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-bugs-boys/ Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West | Jerry Enzler - https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Bridger-Trailblazer-American-West/dp/080619197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39712IOHTJVTB&keywords=jim+bridger+jerry+enzler&qid=1675001445&s=books&sprefix=jim+bridger+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1 Whitman Massacre Pt 1 | How the West Was Fucked – https://open.spotify.com/episode/2avEWulV7wwe5LRnDaaoy5 Whitman Massacre Pt 2 | How the West Was Fucked – https://open.spotify.com/episode/29TFAPU6WBYF18VgiwFWyQ Jim Bridger (Just kidding, please listen to this!) | How the West Was Fucked - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6c5v7MdIJemcr7Jir2hCYB Jim Bridger & Brigham Young | Jerry Enzler Q&A - https://www.fromthedesk.org/jim-bridger-brigham-young/ Listen to Texas History Lessons for Texas History! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Bridger was tall, fully six feet high, erect, thin, wiry, and sunburnt almost to the complexion
0:36.5	of an Indian. With a face noble and expressive
0:39.5	of generosity, dark brown hair, and liquid hazel eyes, bright almost to blackness. In form he was
0:45.7	straight as an arrow, wore moccasins, and as an Indian turned his toes as he walked slightly inward.
0:51.9	So strikingly did his manners conform to those of the wild denizens of the forest.
0:57.5	This was the description given of Jim Bridger in the fall of 1839 as he returned to the
1:02.8	settlements for the first time in nearly two decades.
1:05.8	Following the Ronevue, he accompanied Andrew Drips back to St. Louis with the last hall
1:10.1	of Beaverplues, later claiming
1:12.0	that this was the first time he tasted bread in 17 years. Got to wonder how Bridger felt, leaving the
1:18.4	clean air of the mountains and suddenly finding himself immersed in the hustle and bustle of the city.
1:23.7	Story goes that he crossed the river and went back to his childhood home, just to look around,
1:28.3	I reckon, to reminisce.
1:30.4	His parents were long dead, and so was his brother.
1:33.2	His sister may or may not have still been alive.
1:35.9	So far as I know, historians have not yet uncovered her name, so we're not sure of her
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