Word: mountainmen
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...mangled head from the jaws of one and went on to discover the South Pass gateway through the Rockies and the last missing link in the Oregon Trail. The Plains Indians, who were some of history's toughest cavalrymen, also found their match in Smith and his "mountainmen." One of them kept on trapping for three years with a 3 -in. arrowhead embedded in his back...
...author concludes that it was all for the best. If the mountainmen had been a less irrepressible force, the U.S. might never have amounted to anything more than "another Holland or Portugal...
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