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Old Indian Trail - Maki Creek Crossingis documented in Forest Service project records-one of many quiet reminders that these drainages were Indigenous routes long before they were blazed by stockmen or mapped by engineers.US Forest Service Mountain men u0026 the Green River Rendezvous.In the 1820s-1840s, this valley sat at the beating heart of the Rocky Mountain fur trade.Jedediah Smith,William Sublette(namesake of Sublette County),David Jackson, and others wintered, trapped, and traded along the Green and its tributaries, crossingSouth Passand convening the famousGreen River Rendezvousnear present-day Daniel/Pinedale-six of the sixteen Rocky Mountain Rendezvous happened right here in the Upper Green. Today, the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale and annual Rendezvous Days keep that story alive. From traplines to haylines.As beaver hats faded, cattle and hay took over. The open valleys and reliable creeks around Maki Creek became classicworking-ranchcountry-meadows in the bottoms, summer range on the benches, timber for posts and stove-wood up high. That working landscape-stock, hay, and wildlife moving through the same corridors-still defines the feel of the place.
