Beyond the Mountains: Jim Bridger’s Forgotten Business in New Santa Fe

The Wild West- tall tales of cowboys, Native Americans, fur trappers and traders. So many stories were shared about men who swapped the bustling east for the barren west. They craved the mystery of uncharted territory- the want and need to establish something- to find something.

They wanted to change their destiny.

To take such a risk when the dangers were so prevalent cannot be understated. And before the mass influx of families traveling the old trails out west, men years before them carved out and documented the best way to get there…

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