Jim Bridger

James Felix Bridger, known as Jim Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881), was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites. He was of English ancestry, and his family had been in North America since the early colonial period.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim Bridger
• Pages 115-116 - Drury, B. and Clavin, T., 2013, The Heart of Everything That is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend: Simon & Schuster, New York, 432p.