Instructions: Read the passage and answer the following questions. Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
When Jim Bridger was eighteen years old, he answered a newspaper ad to join a beaver-trapping expedition
Jim traveled with the trappers more than 1,800 miles (2,897 kilometers) up the Missouri River to the
Yellowstone River. On the trip, Jim learned to live in the wilderness. He became a mountain man. Two years
later, in 1824, Jim joined an expedition that explored the South Pass Trail across the Rocky Mountains. Soon
settlers headed for California began to use the South Pass Trail. Many years later, in 1850, Bridger found a
shorter route across the Rocky Mountains. He named this route Bridger Pass. Stagecoaches began to use
Bridger Pass to cross the Rocky Mountains. After finding Bridger Pass, Jim worked as a scout for the U. S.
Army. But as he got older, Bridger began to go blind, and he retired from his job as an army scout. In 1867, h
bought a farm in Missouri. He died on his farm in 1881. He was seventy-seven years old
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