 built Fort Bridger and the immigrants all got to know him. There's a third important name that Gilchrist says many people to this museum know well. Kit Carson is famous mainly from some of his later exploits, but he was younger than Bridger, so he came out later, but he was all amongst this, but he became very famous because of guiding John Charles Fremont in the 1840s. The Museum of the Mountain Man interprets this time period mostly from 1825 to 1840, the years when Smith, Bridger, Carson, and others hunted and trapped this area of the West.