The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Henry Ashley...

effectively put all American fur traders out of business. By 1841, the American Fur Company and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company were in ruins. By 1846, only...

the co-owner of the successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred", for the famous mountain men working for their firm from...

The Rocky Mountain Rendezvous was an annual rendezvous, held between 1825 and 1840 at various locations, organized by a fur trading company at which trappers...

competitors, like the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. By 1830, the AFC had nearly complete control of the fur trade in the United States. The company's time at the...

In 1799, the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company each established the Rocky Mountain House and Acton House fur trading posts. Trade with the...

1823, Arikara warriors assaulted trappers working for Ashley's Rocky Mountain Fur Company on the Missouri River, killing about 15 people. The surviving...

frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his four brothers...

or Crow furs to his former partners of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Instead, he sold to John Jacob Astor's competing American Fur Company. Beckwourth...

was an Irish fur trader in America Indian agent, and mountain man. He trapped for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and the American Fur Company. He was among...

Company expanded its operations as far north as Great Bear Lake, and westwards beyond the Rocky Mountains. For several years, they tried to sell furs...

several associates purchased a fur company from Jedediah Smith and others, which they named the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. James Felix Bridger was born...

of the AFC, their main American rival, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company sold out in 1834. The coming of the fur trade to Montana brought several substantial...

new frontiersmen. It included William Sublette, who with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company played a major role in the development of the Oregon Trail. In...

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch...

1820s. Born in Missouri, Scott joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1822 and took part in the first fur trade expedition at the Great Salt Lake in...

beginning of the Rocky Mountain fur trade.: 1, 4  Opening a gun shop in St. Louis in 1815, they developed their Hawken Rifle, dubbed "Rocky Mountain Rifle", to...

Scott (1805–1828), a fur trader with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company who was found dead in the vicinity on the return trip from a fur expedition. The smaller...

the river Missouri" as part of a fur-trading venture. Many of them, who later earned reputations as famous mountain men, joined the enterprise, including...

19th-century period drama-thriller about fur trapper Hugh Glass, a real person who joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company on a "journey into the wild" and was...

north bluff is named after Hiram Scott, who was a clerk for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and died near the bluff in 1828. The bluff served as an important...

frontiersman, fur trader, entrepreneur and hunter. Ashley was best known for being the co-owner with Andrew Henry of the highly-successful Rocky Mountain Fur Incorporated...

"Capt. Henry" is likely a fictionalized Major Andrew Henry of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. It was based on an original script by Jack De Witt, and bought...

trade goods to Milton Sublette and Thomas Fitzpatrick of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company for the 1834 Rendezvous. Men for this venture were recruited on...

English Fur Trading Companies, 1930 (e-book – with maps.) Berry, Don. A Majority of Scoundrels: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. New...

Peace River in Canada. It extends from northwestern Alberta to the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, where a certain portion of the region...

along the Oregon Trail. Scotts Bluff was named for Hiram Scott, a Rocky Mountain Fur Company trapper who died nearby around 1828. Washington Irving claimed...

into being with the establishment of the first British fur trading posts west of the Rocky Mountains by Simon Fraser and his crew, during their explorations...

from the British Hudson's Bay Company, camped here on May 22, 1825. The next day, 25 American Rocky Mountain Fur Company trappers belonging to John Henry...

been a younger Mike Fink who joined the expedition of the Ashley Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Davy Crockett is supposed to have described him as "half horse...