Jim Bridger
/ˌdʒɪm ˈbrɪdʒə(r)/
/ˌdʒɪm ˈbrɪdʒər/
- (1804-81) a mountain man in the American West who discovered the Great Salt Lake in 1824. He caught animals and sold their furs, and worked for the army as a scout (= a person who goes first to watch for danger). He began the town of Fort Bridger in Wyoming. One of his friends said Bridger had ‘little fear of God and none of the devil’.
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