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Free Trappers bring 200 horses from California in bold raid
The legendary free trappers of the Rocky Mountains rode from Montana in a bold foray to California. Killbuck La Bonte and 14 mountain men faced deserts and dangerous tribes, seized 200 Spanish horses, sold them at Bent's Fort, then returned across the Rockies. They later reached Taos, clashed with Mexican locals, and retreated after a brutal taos confrontation.
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Rocky Mountains
Black Fox
Montana
Rockies
Far West
Bill Williams
Killbuck
la Bonte
Bridger
Walker
Great Salt Lake
Desert
Yellowstone
George Frederick Ruxton
St. Louis
Russton
California
Bent
Salt Lake
Ruxton
Blackfeet
Mission of San Fernando
San Fernando
Las Animas
Los Martires
Fray Augustin
Augustin
Bayou Salado
Peeters
Bent’s
Arkansas
Kit Carson
Taos
N. M
Dick Wooton
Colorado
Rube Herring
Marcelline
Chabonard
Skit Carson
Paragon
Carson
Green River