The Fremont culture was an ancient Native American culture that existed in the Great Basin region of the western United States between 1000 and 1300 AD. The Fremont people were hunter-gatherers who lived in small villages and farmed corn, squash, and beans. They also created beautiful rock
The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture named after the Fremont River in Utah, where the culture's sites were discovered by local indigenous peoples like the Navajo and Ute. In Navajo culture, the pictographs are credited to people who lived before the flood. The Fremont River itself is named for American explorer John C. Frémont. It inhabited sites in what is now Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado from AD 1 to 1301. It was adjacent to, roughly contemporaneous with, but distinctly different from the Ancestral Pueblo peoples located to their south.