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History doesn't record the first white or European to "find" or enter into what is now Colorado. However, without a doubt, the earliest whites to come into Colorado were the Mountain Men trapping beaver in the very early 1800's. The Trappers were a mixture of French Canadians and Americans. Joe Meeker, one of the more famous American Mountain Men, was the first documented man to come into what is now Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Imagine his surprise finding all that natural warmth from the geyers, mud pools, etc. in the middle of a Rocky Mtn. winter!

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