History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . s returning from Washing-tfin, where he had been to lay his case before tlie authorities. Marcy tellsus that Bridger was an illiterate man. tall, thin, wiry, with a complexiinwell bronzed by toil and exposure, with an independent, generous, open ca^tof countenance, inilicative of brave and nolile impulses. I have a jettf-rfrom P. W. McAdow of Billings, Montana, wlio know Bridger Mell. 1-feeayirthat Bridger was bora in Washington in 1807, and joined Ashleys fur WYOMING. 685 that FortBridger was founded,Sabille Adams and com-pany erected l<
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . s returning from Washing-tfin, where he had been to lay his case before tlie authorities. Marcy tellsus that Bridger was an illiterate man. tall, thin, wiry, with a complexiinwell bronzed by toil and exposure, with an independent, generous, open ca^tof countenance, inilicative of brave and nolile impulses. I have a jettf-rfrom P. W. McAdow of Billings, Montana, wlio know Bridger Mell. 1-feeayirthat Bridger was bora in Washington in 1807, and joined Ashleys fur WYOMING. 685 that FortBridger was founded,Sabille Adams and com-pany erected l<ort Platte on the point of land formedby the junction of Laramie fork with the Platte. Itwas never completed, having one side open towardthe river. Let us leave fur-hunting and hunters and turn toother enterprises. We cannot quite get away fromthem after all, for it is in their company that all comewho venture to invade this grand and virgin heart ofthe continent. Li 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838 and 1839parties of missionaries, men and women, crossed the. Old Fort Bridger. plains and mountains, descending to the shores of thePacific. Tw^o days tr^-vel from the rendezvous onthe Sweetwater, the two pioneer white women ofthe Pacific coast received such a welcome as the menof the mountains knew how to give, and were escortedto the great camp of that year on Green river. Fora week, civilization in their persons, rested in this company for the mountains in 1826. In his long experience in the moun-tains he became acquainted with every part of them, and was the most skill-ful and relialile guide known. While in the east in 1856-7 he purchased afarm near Westport, Mo.; but the change in his habits was iinendureble,and he returned to the mountains, and resumed the occupation of guide,which he followed until age compelled him to abai-don it, when he went tolive upon his farm. He died at his home near Westport in 1881. 686 EARLY EXPLORATIONS. meadowy vale, and then passed on with the greatEngli
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