Ashley's 100, Mountain Men and Westward Expansion
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The History Guy remembers the forgotten history of Ashley's 100, mountain men and westward expansion.
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I used to do Rendezvous re-enacting. Built my own Hawken rifle, drove the Lewis and Clark route to the Pacific, etc... Thankyou for covering the exploration of The West. A fascinating and much forgotten page of U.S. history!
Yeah i I rub Hawken tabaccy!!
If you get to Chadron, Nebraska, the Museum of the Fur Trade is surprisingly well done. I enjoyed my visit there.
Great factual story. Love it. Note: Years ago, 1970's or 1980-'s, I listened to a radio broadcast on KABC in Los Angeles, It was about a young American who lived in Russia with his family. His Father was contracted to guide the Russians into car manufacturing as he was apparently a Ford Co. engineer. As I recall from the interview, this gentleman was known as the Ice Man and perhaps wrote a book on his experiences. One day he returned to the American compound to discover everyone was gone. He was arrested by the police and sent to Siberia to die. He was given a knife and left to survive or die. He evidently survived through determination and physical stamina. He earned the welter weight boxing title while in Russia that he credited for part of his survival. He married a Russian girl and apparently Fathered a daughter. He stated he met American soldiers stranded fighting for the "White Russians" when the Bolsheviks prevailed, He was nearly 80 years old when he was released to the USA and wrote a book. I do not recall the title but the story caught my attention and I would like you to know who this man was. Thank you, Fred Thomas
This video brings together lots of different pieces that I learned separately.
Very well done, may I say.
I’m here three years later, binge-watching your outstanding channel. I feel like I’m fortunate that I’m able to watch several of your videos each day, instead of having been here all along. Lol I can’t imagine only watching three videos per week! (Although I know perfectly well that three videos a week is extremely generous.) I would say that you and Ms. History Guy are in the right place, doing the right thing. You’re. Just. So. Good. At. This!
THG-This must be one of your early works, judging by the buzz cut. It was certainly entertaining and informative…and your right, those men deserve to be remembered. Thank You.
For 7 years me and a friend ran a food booth at the Fort Bridger Rendezvous. With the requirement for period correct clothing etc it was very easy to let myself imagine how it might have actually been back in the day. My buckskins are drying out in my closet now, but the memories remain sharp. Good times. Thanks for an excellent video!
I live in Jackson and gave tours of Yellowstone for years. I love history.
A segment on the childhood heroes of most of the boys of the nineteen fifties. I thank you for the ride back to a different time and place.
Yes, the 1950's when we still had heroes, harder to find now.
@@melaniewestberg2886 Not when you look in the correct places it isn't.
Great history snippet explains a lot of towns, valleys and mountain ranges that I visited and then buy those explorers.
Great job! The Fur Trade is one of my favorite Historical periods.
I love this kind of history. I was born and raised 40 minutes from Independence Rock on the Oregon trail in Wyoming
Outstanding topic, as a backpacker, and traveler, 35 years in Utah now finding joy in the Willamette valley.
I appreciate very much how you take the time to highlight pivotal moments, or signature events that mark the collisions between cultures (among your many varied topics). In this episode about the Mountain Men, those collisions are central to the story. and are impossible to extract from the very events. I believe that these stories of cultures colliding with one another are important to be remembered--but especially in the context of the historical framework of their own era--to help us see the events through the eyes of the participants (as best we can). I am astonished at your ability to accomplish this in such marvelous short segments!
As the colonizing forces swept westward across America, obviously many indigenous peoples were affected, in many profound ways. A little known piece of evidence tied to these collisions can be found in the Tsagaglalal petroglyphs found in the Columbia Gorge, of the Pacific Northwest. There is much hype, but there are also many reputable sources--local historians being perhaps among the best. This might make an interesting segment (or since information is pretty scarce--perhaps something to add in to another episode thematically similar).
Thank you for sharing your love of History with the rest of us!
As usual, history is written by those who own it! Well before any of these frontiersman were born, French Canadian explorers were already out there first. Read up about Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye for example. Him and his sons and other men were the first white Europeans to see the Bighorn mountains in Wyoming and travelled as far south as the mouth of the Mississippi River. They even named Arkansas, a word made in English from ‘arc en ciel’ which is French for rainbow. Yes my Americans, my ancestors where there way before. The Hudson’s Bay Company mentioned in this video was founded in 1670, and still is in operation today.
I'm sorry that didn't work out
i'm glad that you do these interesting stories because life, now, can be boring. keep up your work and passion to share our history.
Another good one. So much of the history I learned was taught with over tones that suggested America and the people who settled her were bad. Thanks for telling a story straight down the line.
I thoroughly enjoy your channel. I grew up in Colorado where the tales of Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and Hugh Glass were Everyday Stories. Thanks for telling these stories. I studied English History mostly in College focusing on the War of the Roses, but I really enjoy you Stories of American History. Thanks and Keep,sharing please 👍🏻😁😁
Great episode! I have read about many of these men as individuals but did not know about their original connections to one another. That is one of the great things about watching your channel. Thanks for adding to my history education.
Thanks from Casper Wyoming - nice to hear more about our Western states!
Excellent history lesson. I'm in the process of following the Santa Fe Trail. In doing my research I came across the Fur Trade. Now, I'm all juiced about that.
Ashley is buried on private land near Arrowrock Mo. A party of living history buffs called the Arrowrock trading company, that does living history of a Santa Fe trail trading venture, found his grave site and cleaned it up about three years ago.
That is so cool
I'm glad that some people did a good deed for someone that had been almost forgotten to history !
They "found" Ashley's grave?? Had they been looking for it, or did thy merely stumble on to it?
@@NattyBumppo48 it’s on private land. A marker had been placed on it in the 1930s but was all grown over.
Arrowrock Stock and Trade cleared it out for the land owner, but it’s not open to the public
crazy I grew up between Arrow Rock and Hardeman and never knew about it
I've really been enjoying your videos. You should look into the story of Richard "Beaver Dick" Leigh, one of the last of the mountain men. He settled in Idaho's upper Snake River valley and served as a guide for Teddy Roosevelt in the Tetons along with other notable men and explorers. Jenny Lake at the base of the Tetons, was named for his Bannock wife, Jenny, who accompanied him on his guide trips. Leigh Lake was named for him. He has an interesting, and sad, story.
A recollection of USA mountain men, including a lovely photo of Mt. Rundle in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, at 4:33. Vermillion lake is the body of water in the foreground and this photo is taken at the Trans Canada Highway rest stop on the eastbound lane.
I'm sure glad I found your channel, love the videos . Thank you for the uploads.
Another well made and Watchable video. More please
love your snippets, can't get enough
John Fremont was a bold and interesting character. I found his exploits very interesting.
I went to Fremont Elementary School in Alhambra, CA from K-8th grade, right there on Fremont ave. ;-)
Also had a hot wife, daughter of one of the most powerful men in the Senate. She helped him plan his trips and pulled strings.
I always enjoy listening to you & loved this history lesson!
This is great content. Glad i happened to find your channel. I am familiar with a lot of what you talked about here as i grew up in Cody / Wapiti Wyoming but its great to hear these individuals still being talked about. Something i have always found interesting about US history is the lack of discussion of the west. I don't recall in high school history books talking much about the US west of the Missouri river before the 1800s. Maybe that's because high school was 30 years ago and i didn't care then, i don't know. Maybe you have covered this and i just have not found it yet, and this is a broad topic, but what was going on in the US west of the Missouri from say, 1492 through 1776. or really to around 1820 as you mentioned here. Thats 248 - 328 ish years that really are not talked about very much.
this probably one of my favorite videos you've produced. great information and learned a great deal. thanks.
Yup. All that info in less than nine minutes. Great presentation.
I absolutely love your channel, sir. I'm addicted
I SLEEP TOO THESE BUT RE WATCH IN DAYTIME! I LOVE THESE 10 MINUTES OF HISTORY!
Thanks for the good show.
Very well done video! I would urge you to look into the records of Bayton Morgan & Warton, who were a fur trade company operating largely out of Fort Pitt beginning in the 1760's. They actually used the same methods as Ashley. BMW supplied hunters with all of the materials they needed and sent them off to Kentucky and the Illinois country to hunt and bring hides back in much the same fashion as Ashley's crew decades later.
Wonderful narrative. Love your videos, man.
I liken your snippets of forgotten history to a patch on a cloth - filling in the gaps, or tears, in the American historical fabric. A very well done patchwork that seamlessly blends w/ the rest of that fabric. I also find it fascinating to read in the comments from descendants of the figures you talk about. As a first gen American, I have no ties to this country's origins. My family's history in this country begins around the late 1800s, w/ my grandfather's arrival from Bermuda.
This particular subject is one that needs explored to a greater extent. You did s great job and RUclips needs more channels like yours.
My first job as a teen was working for Ashley National Forest. I often passed through Burntfork, WY at the site of Ashley's first rendezvous in 1825. Local ranchers over the decades have found artifacts, including pieces of rawhide and lead balls.
Another great story. Atlantic City, Wyoming has always been an interesting place to me. I followed a snow plow through there one bitter cold night to Farson, Wyoming only to have to wait for morning for the gas station to open for fuel.
LOL yes, Fremont county. Rural even by Wyoming standards.
Do they still serve ice cream there? Stopped there in the 50s and 80s. Might have changed since then. Probably not much.
Thank you Lance.
Great presentation of the fur trapping period.The old movie "The Big Sky" was about a fur trading trip up the Missouri river one of my favorites as well as "The Revenant" I have read a lot of the early journals and books of the Fur Trapping period 1820 thru the 1840's a definite period of AMERICA adventure.
It's been a few decades since I last saw "Sky". Very good as I recall. Have yet to see "Rev". Can you provide the titles of at least some of the journals & books of the Fur Trappers? I'd be interested in reading them. I don't know exactly why this period fascinates me so but it does!
Great episode. Thanks!
Always a good lesson. For those of us experiencing short term memory loss, could you , would you , consider adding a timeline, that most hated of Sophomore History class homework, on the screen to allow us to follow along better?
I love the history of the mountain men and all that goes with it.
Well do sir.
Man!! I really love your videos bub 👊🏽😉
Another awesome video and history lesson ! Thank you !
Really love that I found your videos!
Love your channel. You got a subscriber, good sir!
I learnt quite a few new things from this video. Thanks
Samuel Hearne
He's a good local boy here.
His reports back to HBC on his pathfinding in 1700 searching for trade farther west are entertaining to say the least. Important adventurer...along with Kelsey
How about a piece about the Longhunters? They led us over the Alleghenies.
...counties and cities were named
after them.
Schools, too. I went to High School,
at Fremont High, in Sunnyvale Ca.
There is a middle school, here in
Mesa Az, also named after John C.
steve
Many of these names are common here in Oregon and continue to appear on new items. Portland's I-405 bridge was named for John C Fremont, a rare example of a major piece of infrastructure not being named for a politician. Hey 99E is named for Dr John McLaughlin, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company Ft Vancouver (originally developed by North West Company), who saved hundreds of U.S. citizens from starvation before and during the early Oregon Trail period (lasting into the 20th Century).
C.E.S. Wood would be an interesting subject for a video. He recorded Chief Joseph's surrender among other interesting activities. His family recently completed a promise he made to Chief Joseph's family of returning horses to the tribal land.
John C. Fremont was a politician. Fremont was an Abolitionist. John C. Fremont was attempting to emancipate ( and arm ) slaves in Missouri in 1861.
John C. Fremont ran for President of the USA in 1856 as a Republican. He was....a Radical Republican :)
great piece!
Good stuff. ❤️
Awesome! Why don't I remember learning about this?
(Well, I guess it might have been on one of my "sick" days. 😊
Majority of Scoundrels is one of the best chronicles of Ashley's bunch! Bents Fort on the Arakansas river, and the South Platte would be a good episode also.
Great video, I love the expansion into the western region of of our country. Almost wished I lived in that century.
I would have been the first to sign up.
A good topic for THG would be George Rogers Clark. The book entitled “Long Knife” by James Alexander Thom is a terrific read for those who enjoy accurate historical fiction.
Reading list update.✔ Thanks.
It's a good book.
Nice writing. Strewnn across maps of west.
Might I suggest the Hayden expedition. The elevations he reported were very close to actual height of peaks in Colorado
Enjoyed this! Thanks !
For more on this period I heartily recommend "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville" by Washington Irving, originally published in 1837 and available on Project Gutenberg.
Great suggestion. Just started reading it the other day. Found it on the Internet Archive.
Wow! Such recent history. What a wonder it must have been to live in them times!!
Kit Carson was my 3rd gr uncle. His exploits are pretty well known but some of his kin were also involved in early exploration and fur trade. Older half brother Moses B Carson was a partner in the Missouri Fur Company as early as 1819. Brothers Andrew and Robert Carson were on the 1827 Sibley expedition to map the trail to Santa Fe NM. Then there is an Alexander Carson who may have been a cousin of Kit, who was involved with the Lewis and Clark expedition, who was killed in 1836 by Indians trapping the Willamette Valley Oregon
thank you much appreciated
Nice to know you should try to make that more common knowledge, before it’s lost in time. Love the idea that brothers should help each other, The Bible is not full of good stories like that.
That’s pretty cool. Kit was a freakin’ billy bad ass.
Kool stuff ... John Bridger (Jim Bridger's Brother) was my 5th gr Grandfather on my Mothers side
If you haven't you should read the book "blood and thunder".
5:25 "Jedediah Smith's Party crossing the Desert" drawing by Federic Remington. See Google Images for other old west drawings by Remington.
Thanks ....I was wondering about those wonderful paintings. I love the painting at 5:33. Is this a Remington , too?
I don't believe the 5:33 is Remington's style. Remington usually did not feature large landscapes.
Many of the paintings featured here are by Jacob Miller. Google him.
Jedediah is such a cool name. Tried to convince my daughter to name her baby that if it was a boy. It wasn’t, but she wasn’t having any part of it anyway.🤷♀️. However, my second suggestion WAS used by her cousin. Zachariah!
@@lzad3764 Ha! I feel your pain. I tried to name our son Jedidiah, my wife squashed that immediately even after I explained the reference.
Love your videos. Curious about all the hats?
I collect them. I have talked about many on the channel. ruclips.net/p/PLSnt4mJGJfGhaqf9Nk_fkzRlQNrsB2iMb
Very concise. Wondering if you ever expound upon the details or if you only pronounce the general timeline. I am a fan of Terry C. Johnston's books. Thanks
hey great vid!! fantastic
An episode dedicated to John Colter (a member of Lewis and Clark's expedition who returned to trap beaver) and the name-sake of "Colter's Run", where he escaped capture and death in Montana and fled (nearly naked) from Three Forks Montana to Ft. Laramie in Wyoming, a distance of nearly 600 miles.
Excellent.
Thank you for that yarn of history.
Important thoughts in this episode HG
Did anyone else start singing Jim Bridger (by Johnny Horton) when he was mentioned?
Ryan Cargill as long as there’s a USA don’t let his memory die!
What a timely reply! On a side note do happen to know how accurate a folk song like Jim Bridger actually is to reality?
I was singing Kit Carson, by Bruce Cockburn..........
I've never heard of that song I'll have to Google it
Yes
Have you read any of R.M. Patterson’s works about the early explorers of the Northwest Territories and upper British Columbia? He wrote The Dangerous River about his time on the Nahanni River in the 1920’s. The historical aspects of his books appear to be very well researched. All have been enjoyable to read.
History guy is my favorite
Good one
That's it! I'm getting a bow-tie!
Hi HG was wondering if it would be worth doing a piece on "Breaker Morant " and his trail and exercusion by the Britsh during the Boer war. Great channel
Possibly, although the tale is relatively well known owing to the film.
love your videos. Keep up the great work!
Great to watch as always. Have you ever considered a piece on the "silver sidewalk" ?
Ghrey There are actually a lot of various mineral finds that I want to cover, and the Cobalt find was certainly significant to Ontario. I am sure that I will get to it eventually.
The History Guy: Five Minutes of History. It also occurred to me; How many people have even herd of the Fort Tejon Earthquake?
Just finished reading "Crow Killer", great book.
This is super interesting to me. I am sure that the City of Fremont, California is names after John C. Fremont. Very cool. Thanks for the great topic.
O love your channel. Please, please, please more western history.
That was excellent!
I learned a lot about the Indian wars period from the book Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell. The title was one of the Indian names for Custer. The book goes in great detail about the Little Bighorn, but he also digresses a lot about what is known of the history of the different tribes of the northern plains. I guess enmity between Indian tribes was hard to overcome because when the US was fighting the Lakota as the Sioux are known now, 2 long time enemies the Arikawa and Crows served as Custer’s scouts. He should have listened to them as they firmly believed from all the sign they saw that there were way too many to fight as the Sioux also had their northern Cheyenne allies as well making one if the largest encampment of hostile Indians in history!
Very interesting, as usual.
morskojvolk is that dolphins as your symbol? I’m an old submariners TM3SS(SN)
Enjoy your videos. On this topic, you may want to research Jerimiha Johnson, (Liver-eating Johnson). Ended up being on the Calgary City council!
Speaking of the fut trade; my Grandfather on my Father's side had a lucrative fur business here in Batesville, Arkansas, back in the 1940's - early 60's. I had my first paying job in my 8th grade there around 1964 . I was taught how to take the Racoon pelts and take small tacks and stretch them out into a roughly rectangular shape and then scrape off the little bit of fat that the butchers had left. I think I earned 5 cents per pelt. Outside, hanging from the eaves of the porch, would be larger pelts of beavers and fox and occasional mountain lion and probably others that I cannot remember. The beaver pelts would be stretched onto a piece of round plywood in a circular shape, rolled over to a certain area and left to dry. Grand-Dad died within a year of that time. I don't recall what happened to the fur business after he died, but I think it was seeing it's last profitable years anyway. but that sure was an interesting experience for me.
marbleman52 ,
I would bet that you learned new words, and how to spit tobacco juice from Grandpa. He sounds like a real card. Mine trapped all through the depression, and sold or gave the carcasses to poor families in a town near by.
@@robertqueberg4612 stuff that is hardly done now days ! I have found many rotting carcasses of deer with just the heads missing . I live in south central Kansas . I for one would loved to had a chance to either buy or be given the carcasses soon as they took the head . Sadly that doesn't seem to be the way anymore people are out just to get that trophy not caring about the meat !
STEVE Clark ,
Most of these were opossum and raccoon carcasses. You may want to cancel that wish before the good fairy drops a few at your door. You were likely wishing for some venison. I saw a guy carrying a bloody 12-14 point rack in one hand and a hacksaw in the other back to his service truck. He kept the crown of the skull for a mount of some type. He had backed up traffic on a busy interstate for 10 miles in three northbound lanes. Nosey people. ;
My 3td great grandfather, Nathaniel Pryor, was one of the 100 members of the Rocky Mountain Fur Co.
I do love history, and your show! I am quite interested in the indigenous peoples of northern California. Would you ever be interested in doing a story on the "Burnt Ranch massacre"
A show on the first wagon train to California, The Bartleson party would be appreciated.
A Roanoke colony episode would be cool
William Ashley is buried just a few miles from where I sit at this moment--in central Missouri. Ashley's grave happens to be in a prehistoric Indian burial mound.
Definitely one to remember
I enjoy and learn from every episode. With this one though we perhaps need to consider that all the territory being discussed was already well known and undoubtedly all the features would have had names given to them by the indigenous people who lived there. We are perhaps looking at this topic through the prism of the (some might say) colonists i.e. those people who took the land off of the original occupiers....two views on a subject does not make either correct or incorrect...
Awesome information. Question: who makes your bowties?
I geek out over this shit.
There should be a series of books or movies depicting these 100 and all that they did!! The Revenant was a good start.