Jim Bridger - Part 1 - Early Years and the Great Salt Lake

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We talk about the early years of Bridger's life, including his path on becoming a veteran trapper and mountain man. This episode also includes Bridger's reaching of the Great Salt Lake - him being the first white man to ever reach the lake. The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.7	Hello and welcome to the Explorers podcast.
1:12.7	I'm so glad to have you along for a new series.
1:19.4	This is on legendary American mountain man and explorer Jim Bridger. Bridger's story is pretty cool.
1:25.0	If you ask for a description of a quintessential mountain man, he would be the guy. His name is synonymous with the mountains and wilderness of the American West.
1:29.2	Bridger and his fellow mountain men were the successors of the nation's first great frontier
1:33.1	explorers such as Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clark. As for Bridger, he was everything you could
1:38.6	imagine of a rugged frontiersman. He loved the freedom of the wilderness, at one point not returning
1:43.8	to a city for over a decade,
1:45.5	and once there he couldn't wait to leave.
1:47.9	He could not read or write, yet he spoke French, Spanish, and several indigenous languages.
1:52.8	He also knew sign language.
1:54.6	He was a tall man, an expert shot, tracker, and trapper.
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