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Fraeb's Last Fight and How Battle Creek Got Its Name
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| Title | Fraeb's Last Fight and How Battle Creek Got Its Name |
| Abstract | Historical article about Henry Fraeb, "partner in the famous Rocky Mountain Fur Company and subsequently proprietor on the South Platte River." Fraeb was a mountain man in northern Colorado and a German from Saint Louis who worked with Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jim Bridger, Milton Sublette, and Old Bill Williams, from 1829 through the 1830s. He co-founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, which dissolved in 1834, and was killed in a battle with Indians in 1841 on the Snake River while a partner of Jim Bridger at a Green River trading post. |
| Author | LeRoy R. Hafen
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| Date | May 1930 |
| Source | Colorado Magazine |
| Location | Periodical |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 3 |
| Page | 97-101 |
| Subject | Fur trade
Discovery & exploration
Mountains
Campaigns & battles
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| Local Subject | Bridger, Jim
Fraeb, Henry
Colorado
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 218139 |
| CONTENTdm number | 37810 |
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