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Jim Bridger

1804 - 1881

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James Felix "Jim" Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years. He was from the Bridger family of Virginia, English immigrants who had been in North America since the early colonial period.Bridger was part of the second generation of American mountain men and pathfinders who followed the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806, and became well known for participating in numerous early expeditions into the western interior as well as mediating between Native American tribes and westward-migrating European-American settlers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Bridger has received more than 3,069,107 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Bridger is the 262nd most popular explorer (down from 167th in 2019), the 3,691st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,439th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Explorer.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jim Bridgers by language

Over the past year Jim Bridger has had the most page views in the with 302,676 views, followed by German (28,564), and Russian (17,362). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Urdu (66.44%), French (59.83%), and Hebrew (28.00%)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jim Bridger ranks 262 out of 498. Before him are William Smith, Pierre Poivre, Jens Munk, Carl Peters, Oscar Wisting, and Francis Garnier. After him are Anthony Jenkinson, Willem de Vlamingh, Isidore of Charax, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Ippolito Rosellini, and Paweł Strzelecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Jim Bridger ranks 43. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Louise Farrenc, Aleksey Khomyakov, John Gould, and Constantin Hansen. After him are Victor Schœlcher, Pierre François Verhulst, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Mariana Pineda, Jules Dupuit, and Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen. Among people deceased in 1881, Jim Bridger ranks 50. Before him are John Gould, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, Jacques Collin de Plancy, Jules Armand Dufaure, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, and Jane Digby. After him are August Šenoa, Karl Weyprecht, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Konstantin Thon, and Ambrose Burnside.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Bridger ranks 3,691 out of 20,380. Before him are Kelly Rutherford (1968), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Arleigh Burke (1901), John Carlos (1945), Ross Perot (1930), and David Rasche (1944). After him are Glen Cook (1944), Will Patton (1954), Kamehameha IV (1834), Eve Arnold (1912), Jersey Joe Walcott (1914), and Holland Smith (1882).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Jim Bridger ranks 15. Before him are Simon Fraser (1776), Jimmie Angel (1899), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), George W. De Long (1844), Daniel Boone (1734), and Jedediah Smith (1799). After him are Charles Wilkes (1798), Ada Blackjack (1898), Charles Francis Hall (1821), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Edward S. Curtis (1868), and Chris McCandless (1968).

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