Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when he became the first known person of European descent to enter the region which later became Yellowstone National Park and to see the Teton Mountain Range.

2018年7月9日 · How John Colter ventured into the uncharted West with Lewis and Clark, explored Yellowstone before any non-Native, and survived being hunted for sport by Blackfeet warriors. Wikimedia Commons Illustration of a 19th-century mountain man. Like any other legendary figure, John Colter’s story remains somewhat shrouded in mystery and uncertainty.

Telling Colter to run, the mountain man quickly realized he was the object of a “human hunt.” A very swift runner, Colter eluded most of the group, but one man was gaining on him. Turning and facing the Indian, Colter killed him with his own spear, took his blanket, and was able to escape by hiding in the river under a pile of logs.

From becoming one of America's first mountain men to the first American to see Yellowstone, his adventures have been recorded and told throughout the ages. On the expedition he was well renowned for his scouting, hunting, speed, survival skills, and his sense of direction that aided with map making.

John Colter’s exploits after the conclusion of the Expedition exceeded in danger and personal bravery anything he experienced while on the Tour of Discovery. He was born about 1775, another Virginian, born in Augusta County on the frontier.

2019年5月20日 · So goes the life of the first mountain man to see Yellowstone: John Colter. It was 1803 when John Colter, already a skilled hunter and scout, joined the Corps of Discovery – the Lewis and Clark expedition -- before it set out from St. Louis, Missouri, in an effort to document the lands of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.

2010年1月8日 · John Colter — hunter, trapper, explorer, and Indian fighter extraordinaire — deserves to be known as the first mountain man, the earliest in a lineage of intrepid men who explored the...

One of the very first American mountain men was John Colter. What follows is an excerpt from the just-published Throne of Grace that describes a tale of survival. Confronted by Indians, John Colter, who had previously accompanied Lewis and Clark on their legendary expedition, was about to embark on an escape that would go down in history as ...

John Colter was born in the Shenandoah Valley near Staunton, Virginia, around 1774-75. Growing up on the Virginia and Kentucky frontiers along the Ohio River, Colter quickly mastered hunting and wilderness skills at a young age.

2016年11月25日 · John Colter was a member of the Corps of Discovery that crossed the wide Missouri with Lewis and Clark in 1804-1806. He was considered to be one of the Corps best hunters. Besides being a hunter and woodsman he also scouted finding passes through the Rocky Mountains, becoming one of the key figures in the success of the expedition.