 Plus, friendly Native Americans, friendly Shoshone Indians who wanted to trade with them. Clint Gilchrist shares the story from the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale, Wyoming, a town that sits in the Green River Valley that Jedediah Smith explored. The men who came here to trap stayed in the area. After all, it was a long way back to St. Louis, so supplies were brought here to them. Those supply caravans would meet the mountain man at a certain place, and they called that rendezvous.