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Bonneville Comes to America
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France in 1796. His father was a "fugitive from Napoleon's wrath." Bonneville and his mother had been allowed to come to America under the "safe-conduct" of Thomas Paine.
Early Military Years
Bonneville graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1815 and entered the army. Eventually, he was assigned to frontier duty where he became a skillful traveler of the prairie and of the Indian country. While in St. Louis, Missouri he became interested in the fur trade, an interest that later led him to enter that profession.
Bonneville Heads West
After gaining experience with the fur trade while serving at frontier posts, Bonneville obtained a leave of absence from the army, in 1832, to venture westward. In his endeavor, he was testing his belief that wagons could be successfully taken over the Divide and on to the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. Within the twenty wagons that made up his train, Bonneville managed to transport a large enough stock of goods for trade to last for two full years.
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