Coming Soon: New Art Exhibit for 2026 We’re excited to announce an upcoming art exhibit for the 2026 season, generously loaned by the Tim Peterson family. Confluence of Cultures explores the dynamic interactions between Mountain Men and Plains Indians and features 87 works of a...
The Museum of the Mountain Man, in partnership with art collector Tim Peterson, is pleased to present one of the largest collections of original contemporary art of the mountain men. The exhibit will be on display for the 2025 season, May through October. It is titled “On...
In 1853, Louis Vasquez a good friend and business partner of Jim Bridger, had this 40 caliber half-stock rifle engraved J. Bridger 1853, and presented it to Jim for reasons still unknown. Perhaps it had something to do with their long business association or possibly it was due...
Permanent Exhibit Upper Gallery This exhibit offers a broad overview of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountains and specifically the Green River Valley between 1820 and 1840. Displays include trappers’ equipment on loan from the American Mountain Men Association, a diorama of a Re...
Permanent ExhibitUpper Gallery While hunting near the headwaters of South Dakota’s Grand River to supply the 1823 Ashley fur trapping party with food, Glass encountered a sow grizzly bear and her two cubs. The enraged bear charged and severely mauled the mountain man. Believing...
The most powerful short bow of the Native American horse culture, sheephorn bows were backed and wrapped with sinew for increased strength and recoil. Such a bow was a prized possession. ...
One of the highlights of the Museum of the Mountain Man is the full-scale replica of American Horse’s tipi, which stands in the center rotunda of the museum’s main exhibit gallery. The 20′ diameter, brain-tanned buffalo hide tipi is one of the few buffalo-hide tipis in ...
Permanent Exhibit Upper Gallery Theater The Winchester Arms Collectors Association introduced its first commemorative repeating rifles in 1964, coinciding with the Wyoming Diamond Jubilee. Each commemorative specifically honors a significant person, group, event, or institution i...
