February 13, 1822.
On that date, the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Missouri, William Ashley, placed an ad in the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser soliciting the services of "enterprising young men" to go with him into the wilderness on a quest of great adventure and profit. Among the 62 "greenhorns" Ashley hired were such unknowns as Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, the Sublette brothers, Edward Rose, and James Clyman. Average men who became great adventurers and explorers, even legends.
How come I never see ads like this in the Wiltshire Herald & Gazette?
JD
On that date, the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Missouri, William Ashley, placed an ad in the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser soliciting the services of "enterprising young men" to go with him into the wilderness on a quest of great adventure and profit. Among the 62 "greenhorns" Ashley hired were such unknowns as Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, the Sublette brothers, Edward Rose, and James Clyman. Average men who became great adventurers and explorers, even legends.
How come I never see ads like this in the Wiltshire Herald & Gazette?
JD