Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Founded at St. Louis, in 1822, by William
H. Ashley. The field of its operations was the Upper Missouri country.
After an adventurous career of twelve years, in which Ashley, Andrew
Henry, M. G. Sublette, and other well-known western American traders
took a leading part, the company was disbanded at the annual rendezvous
in Green River Valley, in the summer of 1834. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Made famous
by the enterprise of the trader Ashley, 134; re-establishes commercial
communication between United States and Oregon, 134. =Bib.=: Chittenden,
History of the American Fur Trade.