Mountain men and explorers make up the branches of Dave's family tree. His mother's side was from Canada where the men plied the fur trade, venturing into the Rocky Mountains during the beaver boom in the 1820's. His father was born in 1905 and saw the last of the Old West. His grandfather was Blackfoot born in a tepee on the reservation in Montana. He was a hunter and horseman who brought a great deal of Old West influence into the Fisher family. From them Dave heard the stories of the West that was. A life-long Westerner Dave inherited that pioneer blood and followed in the footsteps of his