(1799-1854) - aka: Broken Hand. Born in County Caven, Ireland, he immigrated to America in about 1816, where he soon became involved in the Indian Trade. On February 13, 1822, William Henry Ashley, who co-founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, placed an advertisement in the Missouri Gazette and Public Adviser, calling for 100 enterprising men to “ascend the river Missouri.” Fitzpatrick applied and soon became part of the trapping group referred to as Ashley’s Hundred, along with several other would-be famous mountain men including William Sublette, Jim Beckwourth, David Jackson, Hugh Glass, James Bridger and Jedediah Smith. While in Washington, D.C. in 1854, he got sick with pneumonia and died on February 7, 1854. He was nicknamed “Broken Hand,” because his left hand had been crippled in a firearms accident.