John Colter (ca. 1775-1813)

John Corte is a member of Discovery Corps under the direction of Meriwether Louis and William Clark. He was one of the majority political parties densely populated at the storm station camp on the northern coast of Colombia at the end of 1805 and decided to give Colombia to Oregon instead of returning to a dry upstream country in the winter.

According to the report he was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley near Staunton and was one of several Virginians who chose to serve as crew at the end of 1803 by Rui. He has played several roles for the expedition. He was one of the major hunters during his summit in Missouri. From August to September 1805, for their independence and reliability, Corte was often sent to various groups as a courier when they fight against the steep Rolotrail of Northern Rockies. Lewis and Clark also asked him to carry out several independent missions, such as finding lost horses and recovering the wrong important material. Luis and Clark named him Cortar Creek (now Potlatch River in Nespel County, Idaho) by his name

In Klasovskburg near Astoria today, the rest of the exploration was relatively dry, and Corte and some others were about 20 miles away from most of Oregon's winter from 1805 to 1806. After today's sea, cook sea water gallons until enough salt is produced to treat moose. In the latter part of that winter, Corte was a hunter who offered Moose to the Fort class top. On January 8, 1806, he was also a member of a small group, they saw Captain Clark in the south of salt camp, and saw 'terrible fish'. This is where the expedition team traveled to the southernmost point of Oregon.

On returning to Missouri in 1806, Corte went from Captain Lewis to two free (independent) catchers, the westernmost part of the American catcher who had not left the expedition and entered the country of the Yellowstone River I was granted permission to join. I attack. Between 1806 and 1810, when he assisted Manuel Lisa to start trading St. Louis' fur trade in the North Rocky Mountains, Colter got a longstanding reputation as one of the first American mountain ranges. He explored the majority of today's western part of Wyoming and the central part of Montana.

After reluctantly escaping in 1810, Corte declared "If you leave the country tomorrow - if you came again to that country", after 6 years leaving the beach with Lewis and Clark for 6 years, Corte returns to St. Louis It was. At the border of the Missouri River, I spent the rest of the year as a farmer's neighbor of Daniel Boone.

John Colter (May 7, 1712 - May 1812 or November 22, 1813) is a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition team (1804-1806). One of the most famous exploration in history, Corte was best known for his exploration during the winter of 1807 to 1808. See Teton Mountains, now known as Yellowstone National Park. Corte spent several months alone in the wilderness and was widely regarded as the first mountaineer.

Gough's work began with the lifetime of John Corte in 1807, the year after the expedition of Lewis and Clark. After 12 years of effort, Colter's Run brought insight to John Colter's known individuality as well as deepening his understanding of the known elements of the heroic role in the American Western story. This book benefited from a detailed study of the author in his hometown of Virginia at the Colter where Gough was raised. His research also took him to the archive of William Clarke of St. Louis, Missouri, where Clark and Corte met and discussed the trip of Mr. Corte; in Montana and Wyoming, Corte was lively Energetic life filled with "running"

John Corte is a member of Discovery Corps under the direction of Meriwether Louis and William Clark. He was one of the majority political parties who gathered at the storm station camp in the north coast of Colombia at the end of 1805 and voted to cross Colombia on the Oregon side in the winter instead of returning to the arid zone. According to the report he was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley near Staunton and was one of several Virginians who chose to serve as crew at the end of 1803 by Rui. He has played several roles for the expedition. He was one of the major hunters during his summit in Missouri. From August to September 1805, for their independence and reliability, Corte was often sent to various groups as a courier when they fight against the steep Rolotrail of Northern Rockies. Luis and Clark also ordered him to carry out several independent missions, such as finding lost horses and recovering the wrong important material.