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Describe the types of jobs that Mountain men performed

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They became scouts for the army, guides for wagon trails, as well as guiding settlers through the new lands.

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The mountain men With the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the later 1830s–1840s, many of the mountain men settled into jobs as Army Scouts, wagon train guides, and settlers through the lands which they had helped open up.
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