02 Green River Rendezvous | The Beating Heart of the Fur Trade | Free Trappers

Once a year, the Rocky Mountains came alive. From 1825 to 1840, trappers, traders, Shoshone, Crow, and Nez Perce gathered on the Green River for the annual rendezvous — one month of trading beaver plews, racing horses, drinking whiskey, and telling stories before the wilderness took everyone back for another year. At its peak, over 400 mountain men and thousands of Native Americans filled the valley. Supply wagons came out from St. Louis. Fortunes changed hands. Jed Smith read his Bible at the edge of the noise. Jim Bridger told stories nobody believed. Kit Carson showed up for the first time, barely a man, already becoming a name. Track 02 of Act 2 of Free Trappers — a folk and Americana concept album on the Rocky Mountain fur trade era, 1804–1845. 🎵 Act 2 Playlist — Fur Trappers: The Rendezvous Years:    • Free Trappers | The Mountain Men  Act 2 | ...   🎵 Act 1 — Fur Trappers: The Mountain Men:    • Fur Trappers | The Mountain Men Act 1 | Th...   Part of The Wandering Bard — historically grounded folk and Americana.