"Sunday [March] 28th Cold and clair. we traveled to day 6 miles N W over high river cliffs. The country was such as to prevent me from continuing my course W The principal branch of the river bg S W & N E distant from this camp about 5 miles The country generally - is becoming very much cut to pieces by ravines or dry hollers some of the vallies are verry fertile but their driness renders them unfit for cultivation - Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three"
This comes from the 1825 diary of William H. Ashley during a fur trapping expedition. Mr. Ashley was an entrepreneur, fur trader and politician. Although the major Oregon Trail migration did not take place until 1843, Mr. Ashley followed the route of what would later become the Oregon Trail.
This comes from the 1825 diary of William H. Ashley during a fur trapping expedition. Mr. Ashley was an entrepreneur, fur trader and politician. Although the major Oregon Trail migration did not take place until 1843, Mr. Ashley followed the route of what would later become the Oregon Trail.
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