A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . ks. It now gave up the Missouri river trade. In1824 a band of Ashleys men went up the Platte to the Rockies,then through the South Pass in Wyoming into the great UtahBasin around Great Salt Lake. Here was a new territory,rich in furs and never before touched by a fur company. Ash-ley decided to abandon Lisas idea of permanent trading postsbecause of the expense and danger. He adopted the new ideaof having all the trappers meet him once a year at a set place,or re
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . ks. It now gave up the Missouri river trade. In1824 a band of Ashleys men went up the Platte to the Rockies,then through the South Pass in Wyoming into the great UtahBasin around Great Salt Lake. Here was a new territory,rich in furs and never before touched by a fur company. Ash-ley decided to abandon Lisas idea of permanent trading postsbecause of the expense and danger. He adopted the new ideaof having all the trappers meet him once a year at a set place,or rendezvous. Here he collected the furs and shipped them toSt. Louis. Ashley did another new thing. Since he did nothave rivers all the way to carry his furs and since die Platteriver was loo shallow for boats, Ashley adopted the horse andmule pack trains. From now on the Rocky Mountain FurCompany was successful and Ashley became w^ealthy. In 1825he opened a shorter route to the Utah Basin, called the Platteriver trail. About 1830 he sold out to Jedediah Smith and twoof his former partners. I02 History of Missouri and Missoukians. MissouRiANs Open the West 103 Ashley had lived in Missouri since 1802. He was a nativeof Virginia. During the territorial period he took an activepart in various businesses. In 1820 he was elected Missourisfirst lieutenant governor and in 1822 was head of the Missourimilitia. After retiring wealthy from the fur business, he wentinto politics, where he did great service. Although he was aW hig and most Missourians were Democrats, Ashley was ourcongressman from 1831 to 1836. He died in 1839 and hisgrave is in Cooper county. Jedediah Smith, who was prominent in The Rocky Moun-tain Fur Company, also did much for the West. He determ-ined to find a new overland route to the Pacific. In 1826 hefound a southwest route over the Rockies, down Virgin riverand across the Mojave Desert to San Diego, in southern Cali-fornia. He returned by way of Nevada. Two years lat
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