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The Frontier Period -- Main Page

Jim Bridger What does "Frontier Period" mean? Well, in reality, it covers quite a lot... In fact, the Frontier Period covers so much area, we just HAD to make a separate area for it -- much like we are going to now try and do for the RenFaires...

Ideally, all this we have listed in this section should be in their respective time periods, F&I in the 1600-1800 Time/Area, Fur Traders/Trappers in 1800-1860, Native American Reenactors and Trekking in both. However, to us, it just seems logical to put "like-stuff" with like-stuff! Look for this area to really shine soon, book mark it and keep comin' back as it is only going to get better!!

The person in charge of the Frontier Period area here at reenactor.Net is Bonnie (blnzrfn)! If you have a site that needs to be listed in this area, please contact Bonnie at this e-mail: blnzrfn2000@yahoo.com. Please, feel free to look around and suggest stuff! Pix from events are always appreciated!

The term "Mountain Men" is used to describe trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains — from about 1810 through the 1860s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). These men were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails (widened into wagon roads), which allowed Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains traveling over roads explored and in many cases, physically improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies, originally to serve the mule train based inland fur trade.

The Webmaster for this Time/Area is:
Bonnie

Reenactments

Historical reenactment of the dress and lifestyle of a mountain man, sometimes known as "buckskinning," allows people to recreate aspects of this historical period. Today's' Rocky Mountain Rendezvous and other reenacted events are both history-oriented and social occasions. Some modern men choose a lifestyle similar to that of historic mountain men -- they may live and roam in the mountains of the west or the swamps in the southern United States.

Mountain Man dress

The stereotypical mountain man has been depicted as dressed in buckskin and a coonskin cap, sporting bushy facial hair and carrying a Hawken rifle and Bowie knife, commonly referred to as a "scalping knife." They have been romanticized as honorable men with their own chivalrous code, loners who would help those in need but who had found their home in the wild.

For a little history of the Mountain Men click here

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