Milton Sublette
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Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801-1837) was an American fur trader, explorer and mountain man. He was the second of four Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William, Andrew, and Solomon. Milton was one of five men who formed the Rocky Mountain Fur Company to buy out the investment of his brother William Sublette and his partners.
A leg injured by Sublette in a 1826 Indian battle in the American southwest was slow to heal and repeatedly became seriously infected. After it was removed by a surgeon in 1835, he walked on a cork leg made by a friend or rode in a mule drawn cart. Later infections in the leg led to his early death.
Sublette was reported to be a man of dynamic and attractive personality, with a strong tendency toward impetuous action and speech. He was called "the Thunderbolt of the Rockies."
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- Nunis, Doyce B. Jr., Milton G. Sublette, featured in Trappers of the Far West, Leroy R. Hafen, editor. 1972, Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint University of Nebraska Press, October 1983. ISBN 0-8032-7218-9
- Utley, Robert M., A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific, 1997, Henry Holt and Company.
