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Jim Bridger

American explorer

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born
1804
died
1881
age at death
77
known for
explorer, trapper

1804 – 1881

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James Felix Bridger was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years. He was from the Bridger family of Virginia, English settlers who had arrived in North America in the early colonial period.

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