| William Sherley Williams, Mountain Man, Old Solitaire, Old Bill
William Sherley Williams
Born: January 3, 1787 on Horse Creek in western North Carolina
Died: March 14, 1849 in southern Colorado on the upper Rio Grande
William Sherley Williams was a mountain man and master fur trapper known frequently as Old Solitaire or just Old Bill
William Sherley Williams guided the Sibley Survey of the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and the disaster ridden Fremont railroad expedition of 1848
William Sherley Williams the mountain man mastered several Indian languages and lived with the Osage Indians and then the Ute Indians during his life time
The subject of many colorful stories and tales, it is hard to decipher fact from fiction except that William Sherley Williams was a true Mountain Man |
