- Milton Sublette
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Milton Green Sublette Born 1801
USA Somerset, Kentucky[1]Died 1837 (aged 35–36)
USA Fort William[2]Occupation fur trapper, explorer, mountain man Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801-1837) was an American fur trader, explorer and mountain man. He was the second of four Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William, Andrew, and Solomon. Milton was one of five men who formed the Rocky Mountain Fur Company to buy out the investment of his brother William Sublette and his partners.
Sublette injured his leg in a 1826 Indian battle in the American Southwest; it was slow to heal and repeatedly became seriously infected. After it was removed by a surgeon in 1835, he walked on a cork leg made by a friend or rode in a mule drawn cart. Later infections in the leg led to his early death.
Sublette was reported to be a man of dynamic and attractive personality, with a strong tendency toward impetuous action and speech. He was called "the Thunderbolt of the Rockies."
See also
References
- Nunis, Doyce B. Jr., Milton G. Sublette, featured in Trappers of the Far West, Leroy R. Hafen, editor. 1972, Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint University of Nebraska Press, October 1983. ISBN 0-8032-7218-9
- Utley, Robert M., A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific, 1997, Henry Holt and Company.
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