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It was held in the Green River area of what is now Wyoming. Goods were brought in from the East to a meeting site setup the year before. Company men would buy beaver furs and such from trappers and Indians. Beaver skins were as good as gold. The Mountain Men as they were called, only seen each other once a year so they made the most of it.
They held games and events and cookouts for weeks while trading for needed supplies for the rest of the year. This was called a Rendezvous point, Thus we have “Rendezvous”.
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River Oaks Range Rendezvous. “A Frontier Living History Event”. It is a wonderful day to journey back in time and there experience the crafts, skills and lifestyle of days gone by where fur trappers, traders and Native Americans lived.
Guests are admitted free of charge to witness live demonstrations of fire making with flint and steel, weaving on a loom, Hawk & Knife Throwing, black powder guns, tomahawks, field cannon and the malarkey of the colonial storyteller.
These were the times of Lewis and Clark, when Mountain Men came to camp once a year to trade their furs and to buy supplies for the next year trapping in the wilderness.
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