This is the grave of Jim Bridger. Born in 1804 in Richmond, Virginia, Bridger grew up among the mobile working class of the period. His father ran an inn, but soon got the bug to move West. The family ended up in St. Louis. By...
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This is the grave of Peter Skene Ogden. Born sometime around 1790 (the date on the grave is almost certainly incorrect) in Quebec, Ogden grew up in the Canadian colonial.
This is the grave of John McLoughlin. Born in Quebec in 1784, Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin grew up Catholic, despite a Scots-Irish father. His father married a Quebecois woman and so the.
This is the grave of John Jacob Astor. Johann Jakob Astor was born in 1763 in Walldorf, in what is today Germany. His family was skilled workers and that seemed where he was heading. He moved to England in 1779 to work in his uncle's...