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1825 Fur Trade Rendezvous – Chasing General William H. Ashley’s Return
This is the story of three men, Jack “PapaJack” Mitch, Gerry “Lucky” Messmer and Scott “Amish” Staggs who took on an incredible journey of 2000 miles recreating the return from the first Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1825 by William Henry Ashley and his men.
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1825 Fur Trade Rendezvous – Chasing General William H. Ashley’s Return
An Incredible journey of perseverance and history to recreate a 2000 mile trek by General William Henry Ashley and his men from the first Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1825 from southwest Wyoming to St. Louis, MO. These three men replicated this incredible feat of stamina using only what Gen. Ashley and his men would have had with them. They traveled700 miles on horseback, 400by bull boat and 900 on the flooded Missouri River using a recreated one third scale keelboat called the Muskrat.
ISBN – 979-8-8685-1055-7
164 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Xulon Press, 2025