Bill Sublette: Mountain Man AUTH-12986009 my heart soared

my heart soared

and to the written accounts and reminiscences of the Port Natal trader-hunters and the despatches of Cape officials

and interrogated me

using maps

Following the sinking of the Titanic

Bill Sublette: Mountain Man AUTH-12986009 my heart soaredBill Sublette (1799 1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be used effectively on the Oregon Trail). Financial success and silk hats, which strangled the fur trade, later forced him to a less adventuresome life in St. Louis as a