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Fur Trade Pioneer Ashley and the St Louis Route
The Missouri Republican notes in 1822 that Major Andrew Henry and William Ashley led a party up the Missouri to trap in the Rocky Mountains. The Ashley-Henry company, later the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, drew 100 men and traded beaver packs valued up to 60,000 dollars. Ashley helped establish the overland route to California with Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson era figures, and earned a lasting legacy in St Louis as fur trade leader and landowner.
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St. Louis
Wilder
Lewis and Clarke
Manuel Lisa
Maj
Andrew Henry
Rocky Mountain
Bt. Louis
Varlona
Duto
Tims
Gette
Missouri Republican
Missouri
Tigay
Washington
Louwis
Oo Blenad
William H. Arhley
Ashley-Henry Company
Mountain Bar Company
Pian
Tomas ‘Bridger
Etienne Provot
Thomas
Witzpatrick
Milton
Sublette
Wiliam L. Bubletts
Tumbe
Hamlet
Dane
Acley
Norhardt
Ashley
Hret
Pacific Coast
Lewis and Clark
Harriuon Clifford Dale
University, of
Wyoming
Pacific
William Henry Ashley
South Platte
Colorado
Green River
Balt Lake
California
Interior Basin
Jedediah Strong Smith
Wink
Nevada
Storray
San Gabriel
San Diego
Stanislaus River
Sierras
Utah
Great Salt Lake
Tits Mar
Nocky Mountain
Hig ‘Aesoclites
William S. Bublette
Jedediah Smith
David W. Jackson
Great Balt Lake
Aghdley
Grea
Pierrs Chouteau
Auguste Chouteau
Chouteau
Upper
Louisiana
Charles DoeHaulte Delussus
United States
Coulntlann Pucchure
Congress
Iife
Congresa
Ghanteau
Lia
Milesouth
Laming
Binéts
Professor Dale
Cbel Alter
Nelhaidt
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