Green River Rendezvous Traditional Cache
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The Rendezvous had a broad meaning with the early trappers; not
only was it a place to which they carried their furs and exchanged
them for all sorts of commodities, such as clothing, saddles,
bridles, tabacco, whiskey, bright dyes for coloring the trappings
of their horses - but it was a place to meet traders who might wish
to engage their services for the coming year. It was indeed a place
noted for business, pleasure, mirth, gambling and brawls, and the
motley collection was not without interest even to the early
missionaries. Along about 1835, religious teachers became a regular
feature at the Rendezvous. Rev. Samuel Parker made a number of
religious talks to white men and Indians at the Green River in
1835. Father De Smet made a number of his winning and pleasant
talks in 1840 at this same place. The Green River Rendezvous are
commemorated the second Sunday in July each year at the Museum of
The Mountain Man in Pinedale. A large interpretive historical site
marker was erected by the Sublette County Historical Society in
July 1955 on the Rendezvous grounds near Daniel. It was designed by
Jim Harrower and Myra Cooley prepared the lettering. Mrs. Jean Roth
cut the stencils and arranged the lettering. The legend on the sign
reads: "A market place of the fur trade, from the Mississippi to
the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico, where trappers, traders and
Indians came to barter for the first great resource of the West.
Six Rendezvous were held here, gathering not only furs but
information of geographical importance to weld the final link in
exploration of the new world. It is a tribute to the brave men,
both red and white, who blazed the trails for culture and progress,
and to the lowly beaver who gave it impetus"
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1 GERR 3 GEHAXF