Tom Bremer<p>Joe Meek in Yellowstone, 1829: Fur trappers were the earliest non-indigenous people to explore the Yellowstone plateau in the Rocky Mountains. Among them was a teenage adventurer from Virginia named Joe Meek. During his first summer in the Rockies, a surprise attack sent him fleeing to Yellowstone, where he was one of the earliest non-indigenous people to experience its bizarre landscape.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/trappers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trappers</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Native</span></a> Americans <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hell</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RockyMountainFurCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockyMountainFurCompany</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Yellowstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yellowstone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sacredwonderland.us/joe-meek-in-yellowstone/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sacredwonderland.us/joe-meek-i</span><span class="invisible">n-yellowstone/</span></a></p>