Gold was discovered in Montana in 1862, ushering in a flood of prospectors straight through the heart of Lakota territory on a new road called the Bozeman trail, further straining tensions between ...

When Jim Bridger was a young man, the entire western half of what's now the United States was for lack of a better term a wilderness. A land teeming with bison and ruled by Indigenous hunter-gatherer ...

At the age of 13, Bridger was forced to seek any kind of employment he could find. Adept with a paddle, Bridger began trapping from his canoe along the river near the family farm. The spirit of ...