Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a
trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain
Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that
discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant
wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his
longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons
along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers and
swords. Fitzpatrick negotiated the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 at
the largest council of Plains Indians ever assembled. Among the
most colorful of mountain men, Fitzpatrick was also party to many
of the most important events in the opening of the West.
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