Interactive Santa Fe Trail Homepage Take a journey along the Santa Fe Trail. During your trip you will see many historic sights and learn interesting details about this trail. From this page you can access a long list of annotated links to websites which will facilitate your research of the Mountain Men topic. This home page is on online Research Center dedicated to the history, tradition, tools, mode of living, etc., of the trappers, explorers and traders known as Mountain Men. The mountain men were rough and tough and played an important part in the history of the untamed American west.
Topics covered include the fur trade, rendevouz, and mountain life.
You're going to need Adobe Acrobat Reader to take advantage of this great website. Once you 'bought' your supplies you are ready to begin your journey on the Oregon Trail. An excellent site which offers plenty of information about the Overland Trail Mail route. Learn all about the route, the stations along the trail, the stagecoach and what it was like to travel in one, notable personalities, Indian problems, Indian trails, the Cherokee Trail, mountain men, and more. All letters, diaries, and other papers listed here are available, not online, but on microfilm through inter-library loan.