Boyhood memories -- Historical detour -- Up the Missouri -- The Indian country -- Blackfeet defeat trappers -- Arikaras attack Ashley -- Army aids Ashley -- Into the wilderness -- A famous bear story -- The beaver wonderland -- Hostile weather -- Discovering Great Salt Lake -- Battle of Ogden Hole -- Ashley's first rendezvous -- Bridger's travels -- Indian medicine man -- "Smith, Jackson, and Sublette" -- Bear Lake rendezvous, 1827 -- Ogden notices Americans -- Bear Lake rendezvous, 1828 -- First wagons west -- Bridger becomes partner -- Battle of Pierre's Hole -- Vanderburgh's death -- Trappers' amours -- Green River rendezvous, 1833 -- Green River rendezvous, 1834 -- Green River rendezvous, 1835 -- Green River rendezvous, 1836 -- A winter on Yellowstone River -- Green River rendezvous, 1837 -- The smallpox scare -- Bridger breaks bread -- Father De Smet goes west -- Fraeb is killed -- Bridger meets Frémont -- Fort Bridger appears -- Emigrants at Fort Bridger -- The Mormon pioneers -- The forty-niners -- Laramie Peace Council, 1851 -- Fort Bridger taken -- Bridger guides Gore -- The Utah War -- Sale of Fort Bridger -- Guiding Captain Raynolds -- Raynolds is snowbound -- Guiding Colonel Collins -- Guide to Montana mines -- Powder River expedition, 1865 -- Powder River campaign, 1866 -- Powder River's flaming finals -- Bridger's declining years.
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