Henry Fraeb

[2] He then was one of the owners of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with Jim Bridger, Milton Sublette, Jean Baptiste Gervais, and Thomas Fitzpatrick.

For instance, they had delayed shipments of furs back east, which resulted in cash flow and credit issues.

[5] Fraeb became an independent trapper,[5] until 1837, when he opened the Fort Jackson trading post near Ione, Colorado with his partner Peter Sarpy.

[5] He had been leading a group of 23 buffalo hunters into Encampment Valley when they were attacked by 500 Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors.

[4] In the end, after finding a safer place behind log fortifications, the hunters repulsed the assaults.

Typical rendezvous scene at which trappers and mountain men sold their furs and hides and replenished their supplies.