Jim Bridger "The Grand Old Man of the Rockies" (1922)

Jim Bridger may be most famous for being, as a youth, one of the two mountain men who abandoned famed trapper Hugh Glass after he had been mauled by a grizzly bear. It was Hugh's thoughts of revenge for this abandonment that fueled his recovery and eventual tracking down of the young Bridger.

James Bridger, known as Jim Bridger (1804 – 1881), was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820–1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites.

From inside the book:
The western plains and mountains brought forth thousands of men noted for their valor, bravery, daring, sagacity, woodcraft, frontiersmanship and skill in guiding wagon trains and military expeditions across the trackless prairie and barren desert and through snow capped mountain fastnesses on the way to the land of gold beyond the setting sun, or in trailing and bringing to bay the savage hordes that sternly fought the advances of civilization; but among those dauntless spirits there was one who stood head and shoulders above all others as the greatest scout, trapper and guide, the most skilled frontiersman, and the quietest, most modest and unassuming prairie man in all the west. That person was James Bridger, Major Bridger, or, as he was more commonly and familiarly known, "old Jim Bridger," the "grand old man of the Rockies." No history of the American western frontier would be complete without a sketch of the life of this remarkable man.

• Some True Adventures in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter and Trapper on the Missouri River (1857)
• Kit Carson's Autobiography
• Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West
• My Sixty Years on the Plains
• The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter
• Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
• Wild life in the Far West: Personal Adventures of a Border Mountain Man (1872)
• John Colter: Explorer, Mountain Man, and Trapper (1899)
• Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
• Mountain Men of the Rockies: Adventures of Colter, Bridger, Bill Gordon, Peg Leg Smith, Old Bill Williams, Bill Bent, J.S. Smith, the Sublettes, and Other Trappers in that Remote Region (1883)