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Bill Williams the Free Trapper of the Rockies
A portrait of Bill Williams, famed leader among eight fabled 1840s trappers, detailing his solitary hunting craft, fierce engagements with Blackfeet and Sioux, and eventual death near a canyon camp after years of frontier exploits across Montana and Bent's Fort trade routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Williams
Old Bill Williams
Kit Carson
William Bent
Sublettes
Joe Meek
Killbuck
le Bonte
Jim Bridger
St. Louis
California
Bill Hamilton
Montana
Mark
Williams
Lodgepole Creek
Bill
la Bonte
Bent's Fort
Taos
New Park of the Rockies
Marcelline