Traditional Muzzleloading Association

The Center of Camp => People of the Times => Topic started by: Muley on November 12, 2016, 10:56:14 AM

Title: Sign Me Up!
Post by: Muley on November 12, 2016, 10:56:14 AM

Oh how I wish I was born back in those days. I'd have hocked all I owned and bought a Hawken. Then i'd be the first one to sign up. This is a real ad.




FOR THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

THE Subscribers wish to engage One Hundred MEN, to ascend the Missouri, to the
ROCKY MOUNTAINS

There to be employed as Hunters. As a compensation to each man fit for such business,
$200 PER ANNUM, will be given for his services, as aforesaid.

For particulars, apply to J.V. Garnier, or W. Ashley, at St. Louis. The expedition will set out from this place, on or before the first day of March.

Title: Re: Sign Me Up!
Post by: bubba_50 on November 12, 2016, 11:03:55 PM

I sometimes get those same "if only I'd been born back then" feelin's. I console myself with the fact that if I was I'd be dead now.

Title: Re: Sign Me Up!
Post by: Muley on November 13, 2016, 08:41:14 AM

That's true, but if we were both born back then, we wouldn't want to be alive in the world as it is now.

We only get so many years to live. I would have liked to pick when that was.

Title: Re: Sign Me Up!
Post by: Muley on November 14, 2016, 07:57:18 PM

I just started to read a book on Bridger. Pretty much his whole life story.

He talks about the ad I posted above and that he signed up for it when still a youngster. So, I have some idea what it would have been like if I did it back then. Not an easy life, but I expected it was like that.

Title: Re: Sign Me Up!
Post by: Ohio Joe on November 16, 2016, 11:10:40 PM

The money was certainly a draw for most I would think, as well as the adventuresome spirit of the time.

Title: Re: Sign Me Up!
Post by: Muley on November 18, 2016, 11:27:38 AM

So true Joe. $200 was a lot of money back then. The challenge was to not spend it all at the rendezvous.