March 3, 2025 – Fur trapper. Explorer. Member of Lewis and Clark’s Corp of Discovery. U.S. Mounted Ranger during the War of 1812. The life of John Colter reads like a fictional novel filled with adventure, mystery, and danger.Born in Virginia sometime between 1773 and 1775, Colter moved to Kentucky with his family at the age of five where he learned to hunt and trap. When Meriwether ...
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