Rendezvous revives frontier history

Submitted Photo Denny Leonard of Holstein, Iowa, left, national Captaine of The American Mountain Men, and Doug Epperly, right, of Laurel, Mont., also a AMM member, speak to and answer questions about mountain men for children at the Fort Union Rendezvous inside the walls near the front of the Bourgeois House . The AMM is a 501(C)3 organization based in Wyoming with members nationally.
- Submitted Photo Young blacksmiths, from left to right, Seth Hussey, Minot, and Garrick “Gunny” Halvorson and Jayden Halvorson, both of Sidney, Mont., show their metal working craft to attendees at the Fort Union Rendezvous held Thursday-Sunday. Gunny Halvorson is heating up a piece of metal to be worked in the forge while Hussey turns the blower to make the coals hotter. Photos by Roger Riveland.