
One of Ashley's Hundred - Pencil on Bristol board. 6" x 6". (11" x 11"framed ) $300 -
The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Ashley and Andrew Henry. The original hires would be know to history as "Ashley's One Hundred". Among the group were Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger and others who in little more than a decade became legendary as "mountain men". Their " knowledge and experience of the Trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions." * Ashleys men would see the west in it's wildest, most grand form, and would become the point men, the advance guard in the opening of the west.
* A Life Wild and Perilous, Robert M. Utley

Arkansas River Trapper 18" x 24" Oil on Panel
$4900.
Working in small brigades and sometimes on their own hook in the wildest areas of the continent, trappers in the early 19th century lived a perilous existence. This trapper has just stretched a beaver on a willow hoop and takes a last look around before heading to
camp. Edition of 25 limited edition canvas prints. $250
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