before the settlers, before the stagecoaches, these rugged loners wrestled through the Rockies looking for their fortunes. They were known as the mountain men. And this man was known as the firse. What was his name?
Jedidiah Smith didn't arrive in the west until 1825, many years after the Lewis and Clark expedition. the first trappers were actually the Veredrye brothers, Francois and Joseph, in 1742, but don't know if this is the answer they're looking for...