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Old Bill Williams Free Trapper and Osage Missionary Turned Hunter
Old Bill Williams, famed lone trapper, traveled the Rocky Mountain frontier from the Columbia to the Mexican line. He served as a circuit rider and Osage translator before abandoning converting aims for life among the Osage and Ute peoples and returning to free trapping with bands of Hooded traders.
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Old Bill Williams
Tiliams
Old Bill
Willams
Rocky Mountain
Columbia
Missouri
Yellowstone
Bill” Williams
Ohio Country
Jim Bridger
Kit Carson
Jed Smith
Sublettes
St. Louis
Bill
Williams
Ashley-Henry Company
Columia
Bill Gordon
Gordon
Columbia River
Hudson’s Bay
Salt Lake
Bill’ Williams
John C. Fremont
Rocky Mountains
Arkansas
Colorado
Fremont
Taos
N. M
el Dorados
Williams Mountain
Williams City
Ariz
Blackwell’s Magazine
Colorado Mountains
W. ” Mount. Williams