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- It was 1803 when John Colter, already a skilled hunter and scout, joined the Corps of Discovery – the Lewis and Clark expedition -- before it set out from St. Louis, Missouri, in an effort to document the lands of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
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One of the five original Great Falls of the Missouri was named for him in the 1880s by the founder of the city of Great Falls, Montana, who was a student of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Since 1910, Colter’s Falls have been submerged beneath the reservoir behind Rainbow Dam.
Colter headed back toward civilization in 1807 and was near the mouth of the Platte River when he encountered Manuel Lisa, a founder of the Missouri Fur Trading Company, who was leading a party that included several former members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, towards the Rocky Mountains.
John Colter was an American trapper-explorer, the first white man to have seen and described (1807) what is now Yellowstone National Park. Colter was a member of Lewis and Clark’s company from 1803 to 1806. In 1807 he joined Manuel Lisa’s trapping party, and it was Lisa who sent him on a mission to.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Colter’s exploits after the conclusion of the Expedition exceeded in danger and personal bravery anything he experienced while on the Tour of Discovery. He was born about 1775, another Virginian, born in Augusta County on the frontier.
John Colter was a member of the Corps of Discovery, commanded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. He was among the majority of the party that, while huddled at stormy Station Camp on the north bank of the Columbia in late 1805, voted for crossing the Columbia to winter on the Oregon side rather than return to drier country upstream.
In 1808, Colter teamed up with another former Lewis and Clark Expedition member named John Potts, and the two began to trap in the region near Three Forks, Montana. Both were wounded in a fight with Blackfeet warriors as they led a party of Crow Indians to Fort Raymond.
May 20, 2019 · It was 1803 when John Colter, already a skilled hunter and scout, joined the Corps of Discovery – the Lewis and Clark expedition -- before it set out from St. Louis, Missouri, in an effort to document the lands of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
