This innovation also meant the traders would no longer rely solely on the natives to do the trapping. Ashley and Henry initiated overland transportation by caravan of goods to the mountains meaning the mountaineers no longer would need to leave the trapping grounds. The historical significance of this enterprise lies in its departure from dependence on river transportation of trade goods and peltry to and from the mountain streams to St. Ashley, Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West - University of Oklahoma Press, 1980 Indian battles and sunken flatboats resulted in Ashley and Henry taking a dramatic departure from how the trade had historically been conducted.Ĭlokey, Richard M.: William H. Their initial endeavors were, to say the least, not successful. The subscriber wishes to engage ONE HUNDRED MEN to ascend the river Missouri to its source, there to be employed for one, two or three years - For particulars, enquire Of Major Andrew Henry, near the lead mines, in the County of Washington, (who will ascend with and command the party) or to the subscriber at St. Accordingly, Ashley entered into a partnership with his old friend, Andrew Henry and in 1822, that partnership printed the following advertisement in St Louis papers: One avenue did, however, exist, the continuing high demand for beaver fur on the European continent. The economic recession which followed the end of hostilities between Great Britain and the United States in 1819, left the successful William Ashley with few avenues for expanding the fortune he had gained through land speculation. Not that we won’t touch on the historical basis for what we do, but this will be mostly about the history of the modern rendezvous, beginning about 1960 or so. I will be talking about the Rocky Mountain West, and specifically about the Rocky Mountain rendezvous during the modern period.
Sons of a trackless forest series#
This series will be about rendezvous with a very western orientation. This means you need to think about who you are, when you are, and where you are when you get your stuff ready to go to rendezvous. existing in the European and Native American cultures of the period. Whichever way you look at it, we come together at rendezvous to celebrate and recreate this period by making, wearing, using, selling, and or trading the tools, clothing, etc. Another way of distinguishing where our interests lie is by stating that we recreate the North American fur trade era. For our purposes, a rendezvous is a place where those of us who enjoy recreating the brief period in American history when the front stuffing, blackpowder burning, round ball shooting firearm was the common feature. Maybe your friends or neighbors have been to one. This is going to be a concise history of Buckskinning and rendezvous that I hope you will find entertaining and useful. I had the privilege of being your 2014 Rocky Mountain National Rendezvous Booshway. The History of Rendezvous by "Kentucky" David Ritchie photos by "Camera" Bob Woodall
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