Colter and Drouillard: continental crossing
Colter and Drouillard: mountain men prototypes
Robinson, Hoback, and Reznor: doomed trio
Jedediah Smith: atypical mountain man
Jedediah Smith: South Pass and the Siskadee
Etienne Provost: l'homme des montagnes
Jedediah Smith: California, Oregon, and the Cimarron
Ewing Young: gila trails to California
Joe Walker: the Great Basin and the Sierras
Bill Sublette: struggle of the fur giants
Warren Ferris: trapper as cartographer
Tom Fitzpatrick: missionaries to Oregon
Jim Bridger: end of an era
Kit Carson: mapping the way west
Joe Meek and Doc Newell: trappers as colonists
Kit Carson: Fremont's third expedition
Kit Carson: the continent spanned
Jim Bridger: filling in the map.