In North American history, a rendezvous was a larger meeting held
typically once per year in the wilderness. All types included a major
transfer of furs and goods to be traded for furs. Variations included
a mix of other types of trading, business transactions, business
meetings and revelry.One type of rendezvous is associated with the
voyageur & canoe-based fur trade business which was largely in Canada.
These were generally at a transportation transfer point within in a
wilderness route that could not be traversed in one season run by and
including the fur trade of only a single company. The transfer was the
dominant reason for holding the rendezvous although they included
other meetings and revelry.Rendezvous held in the western part of what
is now the United States included a more diverse range of activities
than their northern counterparts. Such a rendezvous might include
several fur trading companies, and array of fur traders, mountain men
and native Americans. A substantial amount of deal-making and trading
occurred at these rendezvous. These were often a temporary "town" of
sorts with businesses which offered the fur trade workers and
participants ways to spend their money on supplies and revelry. The
emblematic type was a large annual rendezvous held in the Rocky
mountains from 1825 until 1840. One of the largest of these was the
Rendezvous of 1832. Much of the attendance of these consisted of
mountain men who were fur trade participants who were experienced at
living in the mountain back country.The syndicated television
anthology series Death Valley Days offered a 1958 episode, "The Big
Rendezvous" about the 1825 gathering. Peter Walker (born 1927) was
cast as the historical Kit Carson, Gardner McKay as the villainous
Pierre Shunar, and Iron Eyes Cody as a trapper. Laurie Carroll (born
1933) was cast as the young Indian woman, Waa-Nibe, for whom Carson is
smitten. The 1980 Western The Mountain Men (1980), starring Charlton
Heston and Brian Keith, featured the rendezvous of 1838 and 1839. Rendezvous (fur trade) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter