William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his four brothers.

An explorer, fur trapper, trader, and mountain man, William “Bill” Lewis Sublette, would help blaze the Oregon Trail. Sublette was born in Stanford, Kentucky, on September 21, 1798 (some sources list 1799). In 1817 he moved with his family to St. Charles, Missouri.

One of the more adventurous and successful of the St. Louis merchants, William Sublette helped build St. Louis as the commercial center of the West. His life provides a case study of the early nineteenth­century western entrepreneur.

Nov 15, 2023 · William Sublette was a Frontiersman, Fur Trader, and Mountain Man, during the Fur Trade Era. He is most famous for the years he spent trapping and exploring the American West and his connections to the famous Mountain Men of the time.

Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led many lives. Renowned as a “Hardy Mountain Man”, ranged the Missouri, Bighorn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River Country between 1823 and 1833, hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the west for settlers. (He proved wagons could be used effectively on the Oregon Trail).

After three years in the mountains, William Sublette was a partner in the dominate Rocky Mountain fur trade company.

Some early pioneers became larger than life-myths, legends, our very own folk heroes. One of Haskell County's towns bears the name of one such pioneer folk hero: William L. Sublette, mountain man. "The vision to see and the courage to do is part of our American heritage."

William L Sublette was a trapper, fur trader and explorer, mountain man, who with his four brothers after 1823, became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and later one of its co-owners, exploiting the riches of the Oregon Country which helped settle and improve the best routes along the Oregon Trail.

One of Haskell County's towns bears the name of one such pioneer folk hero: William L. Sublette, mountain man. William was born to Phillip and Isabella Sublette in a territory along the Cumberland River in Kentucky, September 21, 1799.

May 21, 2021 · Over the next couple of Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in 1828, 1829, and 1830, William Sublette took charge of the parties delivering furs to St. Louis and returning west with supplies to be sold at the Rendezvous.