The Flint Creek and Bitterroot Valleys in the Mountain Man Era, 1825–1865

Ted Antonioli of the Granite County Historical Society explores the 1825–1826 Snake River Country trapping expedition of the Hudson’s Bay Company led by Peter Skene Ogden, which traversed the Bitterroot Valley and circled the Flint Range. The latter part of the era encompassed exploration between the two valleys by Bitterroot-based mountain men like John Owen, Fred Burr, and William Graham, as well as a party from the Stevens railroad survey led by Frederick Lander.