Jim Bridger

And considering the bad relations between the Blackfeet and people that look a whole hell of a lot like me, like I said, I, I completely understand.

But when I tell stories that are Blackfeet adjacent, whether it be Jerry Potts or Jim Bridger or whoever, I do strive to get things correctly.

But like I said, this is one of those things that I'm not exactly sure about, the whole Blackfeet versus Blackfoot designation.

If you'd like to tell me more, or if you're an actual member of the tribe, uh, and you'd like to discuss it, please hit me up at josh@wildwestextra.com. And you know, something tells me that most of them would probably just tell you that they're Siksika or Kainai or Piikani or whichever band they're from, or even, uh, Niitsitapi.

That's crazy.

Um, about 15, 20 years later, in the, um, 1820s to the 1840s, fur trappers and mountain men, like Jim Bridger, told stories of geysers, petrified forests, steam vents, wild animals, and most people back east assumed that they were just exaggerating.

Hmm.

They didn't have any, you know, Google to confirm back then.

Yeah, I've been a trader, prospector, guide, scout.

I freighted and trapped with Jim Bridger.

You heard of Jim Bridger, ain't you?

Oh, I should say so.

Yeah, and I used to run a ferry across the Green River on the Oregon Trail.

Yeah, I've been a trader, prospector, guide, scout.

I freighted and tracked with Jim Bridger.

You heard of Jim Bridger, ain't you?

Oh, I should say so.

And I used to run a ferry across the Green River on the Oregon Trail.

I see this movie as a four-person cast.

From Hugh to Fitzgerald to Jim Bridger, who played by...

We all like him from The Bear.

Will Poulter.

Bridger.

his name doesn't ring a bell now to me Bridger

oh no no yeah I know in real life I know but I just remember looking this up like he is a notable name like I wouldn't be surprised if someday down the line Hollywood wants to make a biopic on Jim Bridger and to just get him alone yeah maybe if you want but like he's an interesting character because like he's first of all he's the first person to appear in like the present like when they're walking in that opening shot in the river like it's his legs who appear in first you know He's very helpful.

He's very honest.

I hear Tarantino's final movie is going to take the form of a teaching humanity to the Nazis TED Talk by Aldo Raine.

Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man, Jim Bridger.

Citation needed.

Ah, sudden, uh, some director I should know.

Our best Indian officers are quick to recognize these traits in those claiming frontier lore, and to no one in the military history of the West has such deference been shown by them as to W.F. Cody, as is witnessed by the continuous years of service he has passed, the different commands he has served, the expeditions and campaign he has been identified with, his repeated holding, when he desired, the position of chief of scouts of the United States Army, and the intimate association and contact resulting from it with General W.T. Sherman, with whom he was at the making of the Comanche and Kiowa Treaty in 1866, General Phil Sheridan, who has often given him special recognition and chosen him to organize expeditions, notably that of Duke Alexis, old General Harney, Generals Forsythe, Merritt, Brisbane, Emery, Gibbon, Terry, McKenzie, Carr, W.S. Hancock, Crook, Pope, Miles, Ord, Auger, Royal, Hazen, Duncan, Palmer, Penrose, and the late lamented General Custer.

His history, in fact, would be almost a history of the Middle West, and, though younger, equaling in terms of service and in personal adventure Kit Carson, old Jim Bridger, California Joe, Wild Bill, and the rest of his dead associates.

As another evidence of the confidence placed in his frontiersmanship, It may suffice to mention the celebrities whose money and position most naturally sought out the best protection the Western market could afford, and who chose to place their lives in this keeping.

Sir George Gore, the Earl of Dunraven, James Gordon Bennett, Duke Alexis, General Custer, Lawrence Jerome, Remington, Professor Ward of Rochester, Professor Marsh of Yale College, Major J.G. Heckscher, Dr. Kingsley, Canon Kingsley's brother, and others of equal rank and distinction.

Should the wild Sioux again go on the warpath, Cody, if living, will be found with the cavalry advance, riding another buckskin Joe and carrying his Springfield rifle, Lucretia, across the pommel of his saddle.

This merited note of applause will find an echo in every patriotic American heart which recognizes and remembers that it was the 5th Cavalry that Generals Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, Hardy, Emery, Van Dorn, Custer, and other noted generals served, and which was formerly known as the 2nd Dragoons.

From General Phil Sheridan's autobiography, after relating his conception of the first winter campaign against Indians on the then uninhabited and bleak plains in the winter of 1868, he says, The difficulties and hardships to be encountered had led several experienced officers of the army and some frontiersmen, like old Jim Bridger, the famous scout and guide of earlier days, to discourage the project.

I decided to go in person, bent on showing the Indians that they were not secure from punishment because of inclement weather, an ally on which they had hitherto relied on with much assurance.