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Jim Bridger

1804 - 1881

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James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years. He was from the Bridger family of Virginia, English settlers who had arrived in North America in the early colonial period. Bridger was of the second generation of American mountain men and pathfinders who followed the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Bridger is the 288th most popular explorer (down from 262nd in 2019), the 4,491st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,691st in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jim Bridger ranks 288 out of 498. Before him are Estêvão Gomes, Ludwig Leichhardt, Freya Stark, Ivan Papanin, Nuno Tristão, and Francis Younghusband. After him are Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Anthony Jenkinson, Eusebio Kino, Roy Chapman Andrews, Wulfstan of Hedeby, and Jean Louis Marie Poiret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Jim Bridger ranks 44. Before him are Paul Gavarni, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Constantin Hansen, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Salomon Müller, and Pierre François Verhulst. After him are Franz Meyen, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, Alvan Clark, Osceola, and Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1881, Jim Bridger ranks 53. Before him are Marie Laveau, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Karl Weyprecht, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Aleksey Pisemsky. After him are Karl Christian Bruhns, Konstantin Thon, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, August Šenoa, and Tanaka Hisashige.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Bridger ranks 4,491 out of 20,380. Before him are William H. Prescott (1796), Marky Ramone (1952), Richard Bandler (1950), E. L. Doctorow (1931), Vincent Richards (1903), and John Petrucci (1967). After him are Joe Roberts (1871), Eddie Bracken (1915), Judy Collins (1939), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), and Gregory Benford (1941).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Jim Bridger ranks 20. Before him are Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Jimmie Angel (1899), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), Ada Blackjack (1898), Jedediah Smith (1799), and Charles Wilkes (1798). After him are Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), John C. Frémont (1813), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Elisha Kent Kane (1820), Edward S. Curtis (1868), and John Wesley Powell (1834).

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