History Night - April
Schedule
Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Palmer Moose Lodge LOOM 793 WOTM 942 | Palmer, AK
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FREE EVENT! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!MOUNTAIN MAN ERA
(Rocky Mountain Fur Trade)
Come learn their stories and discover their lives with one of our favorite storytellers Col Suellyn Wright Novak, USAF, Ret.
They wore fringed buckskin clothes decorated by porcupine quills. They wore necklaces they made, and carried pouches made of the animals they trapped. In them they carried fire starting “kits,” accessories needed for their smoke poles (black powder weapons), salt, coffee and tobacco. They ate whatever they could catch or gather, eating buffalo meat, venison, elk, beaver, birds, roots, berries, and even ants. During the harsh winters, they lived with Indians, who taught them survival skills.
These adventurers were the Mountain Men. They were hired in the 1820s by the Rocky Mountain Fur Company “to ascend the Missouri to its source” after the reports of Lewis and Clark as to the richness of the territory. They were to send back pelts and other furs to Saint Louis for the fashions of Europe. Beaver hats were the rage then. The life of the Mountain Man was hard, but he had the chance to make a lot of money (if he kept his scalp) and lived free of human law and restrictions. Each year in late summer, the Mountain Men gathered at one meeting place, a “rendezvous,” Here they celebrated a successful season with days of dancing, drinking, target shooting, horse races, and storytelling.
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Palmer Moose Lodge LOOM 793 WOTM 942, 1100 S Cobb St,Palmer, Alaska, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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