To enterprising
young men. The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri
River 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 of the subscriber near St. Louis,
signed William H. Ashley.
The Missouri Republican, St. Louis Mo., March
20 1822
And so begin
the tails of the great American West, set in the area of the Louisiana Purchase.
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