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Mountain Men Mocked His "Impossible" Chimney Design — Then Tried to Copy It

Mountain Men Mocked His "Impossible" Chimney Design — Then Tried to Copy It In 1839, French-Canadian trapper Antoine Robidoux shocked his fellow mountain men by building a chimney with a strange bend in the middle. While everyone else built straight chimneys that often filled cabins with smoke during wind storms, Robidoux created what he called a "wind trap" - a deliberate 45-degree angle halfway up. Other trappers called it "Frenchman's folly" and predicted it would never draw properly. They were wrong. Robidoux's angled chimney created perfect draft in all weather conditions, never smoked up his cabin, and used 30% less wood because it burned more efficiently. Within two years, the "Robidoux bend" became standard in trading posts across the Green River valley. The angled design prevented downdrafts, created better combustion, and made winter life far more comfortable. What started as mockery became the most copied chimney design in the Rocky Mountains. This is how one trapper's "impossible" engineering, dismissed by experts, became the gold standard for frontier fireplaces and changed mountain living forever.