William Sublette

William Lewis Sublette ( born September 21, 1799 in Stanford, Kentucky, † July 23, 1845 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) was an American fur trader, Mountain Man and Trapper. According to him, the Sublette County is named in Wyoming.

Life

William Sublette was born on September 21, 1799 in Stanford, Kentucky in 1817 and moved with his family to St. Charles, Missouri. In 1823 he became a member of William Henry Ashley's Rocky Mountain Fur Company in St. Louis with his brother Milton. He took along with Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, David Jackson and other mountain men to Ashley's first expedition to the Rocky Mountains in part. In 1824 he explored along with Smith the Northwest area of the Rocky Mountains, in the area of ​​today's Teton Range, including the Jackson Hole, which he had named after his partner David Jackson. He explored in 1826 along with Jackson the geysers of Yellowstone park.

Together with Jedediah Smith and David Jackson Sublette acquired during the rendezvous of 1826 William Ashley's shares in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Sublette was short at the Santa Fe interested in trading, but returned after Smith's death in 1831 in the Rocky Mountains back and took the Rendezvous of 1832 part of the Pierres Hole. During the fight with the Indians he was wounded. The message about Sublettes travel with car to rendezvous at South Pass and back spread through newspapers. Until then, the Rocky Mountains were for cars as impregnable obstacle. From that first small and later followed large groups of settlers later than the Oregon Trail known path to the west.

Together with his partner Robert Campbell founded Sublette a new trading company. Later, the company was sold to the American Fur Company.

William Sublette, died on July 23, 1845 in Pittsburgh.