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John Colter (c.1770–1775 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).
Apr 6, 2019 · Leaving the eastern shore of the Mississippi in 1804, John Colter embarked on a six year odyssey in virgin land of the upper Missouri River and North Rocky Mountains.
Apr 24, 2024 · Considered by many to be the first Mountain Man, John Colter came west with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. When they headed back to civilization, Colter instead chose to stay behind. He’d live...
Jul 9, 2018 · John Colter traveled with Lewis and Clark, explored Yellowstone before anyone else, and survived being hunted for sport by Native Americans. After they disarmed him, he took a spear belonging to one of his attackers and killed him with it.
John Colter was an American trapper-explorer, the first white man to have seen and described (1807) what is now Yellowstone National Park. Colter was a member of Lewis and Clark’s company from 1803 to 1806. In 1807 he joined Manuel Lisa’s trapping party, and it was Lisa who sent him on a mission to.
John Colter was a member of the Corps of Discovery, commanded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. He was among the majority of the party that, while huddled…
One of the five original Great Falls of the Missouri was named for him in the 1880s by the founder of the city of Great Falls, Montana, who was a student of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Since 1910, Colter’s Falls have been submerged beneath the reservoir behind Rainbow Dam.
John Colter (c.1774 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804−1806). Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when Colter became the first known person of European descent to enter the ...
May 20, 2019 · So goes the life of the first mountain man to see Yellowstone: John Colter. It was 1803 when John Colter, already a skilled hunter and scout, joined the Corps of Discovery – the Lewis and Clark expedition -- before it set out from St. Louis, Missouri, in an effort to document the lands of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
John Colter, The Original Mountain Man. John Colter was born in the Shenandoah Valley near Staunton, Virginia, around 1774-75. Growing up on the Virginia and Kentucky frontiers along the Ohio River, Colter quickly mastered hunting and wilderness skills at a young age.
