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250 and Counting: January 15, 1775

January 15, 2025
Cover art fo Jamuary 15, 1775L A painting of the Yellowstone Valley.

Chances are, if you do your basic Google search for “first Mountain Man,” among the top results you’ll get would be a man named John Colter. We’d argue that he was ONE OF the first, but the real anser, as youll hear today, is Joseph Harrison Dixon.



Dixon and Colter did, in fact, spend some time together in the Yellowstone Valley, but what happened next should convince you that Dixon gets the award for this one. It’s just that Colter had better P.R., we guess.