mountain man A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). They were instrumental in opening up ...

was a North American trapper and explorer in the

American frontier The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of United States territorial acquisitions, American expansion in mainland North Amer ...

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Overmountain Men The Overmountain Men were American frontiersmen from west of the Blue Ridge Mountains which are the leading edge of the Appalachian Mountains, who took part in the American Revolutionary War. While they were present at multiple engagements in th ...

Voyageurs The voyageurs (; ) were 18th and 19th century French Canadians who engaged in the transporting of furs via canoe during the peak of the North American fur trade. The emblematic meaning of the term applies to places (New France, including the ' ...

* Coureurs des bois Mountain man or mountain men may also refer to: * ''Mountain Men'' (TV series) *'' The Mountain Men'', 1980 film * "Mountain Man" (song), a 2009 song by The Crash Kings * "Mountain Man" (Dean Brody song), 2013 * Mountain Man (music group), a singing trio * ''Mountain Man'' (novel), by Vardis Fisher *

Dashrath Manjhi Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934 – 17 August 2007), also known as Mountain Man, was a laborer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar, India. When his wife died in 1959 due to injury caused by falling from a mountain and due to the mountain h ...

, who carved a path through a mountain using only a hammer and a chisel * Mountainman, a single stage ultramarathon * Mountain-men, nickname for Scottish Reformed Presbyterians

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