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London Advertisement: The countryside of England is the neatest bit of greensward, the best tailored and most kempt—this positive word needs coining—in the world, and the villages are in the front rank of quaint and lovely improbabilities. Stratford-upon-Avon is but one of them, but it alone draws many thousands every year from overseas, possibly because a gifted local boy made good by writing successful pieces for the theater. His name is set down on a London advertisement of 1606 as "Shaxberd, the Man Who Mayd the Plays."
(4) Abolition of the factory system in 1822 encouraged the independent American fur company and the individual enterprising trapper. Anticipation of this event brought forth ventures beyond the Missouri. In that same year there appeared in the Missouri Republican of St. Louis the following advertisement: "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, who will ascend with, and command, the party; or of the subscriber near St. Louis. William H. Ashley." This was the beginning of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Among those answering the advertisement were trappers-to-be James Bridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, William Sublette, Jedebiah Smith, and David Jackson (for whom Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, is named). This company lived through several successes and failures as a significant force in the fur trade until 1834.
IS. Advertisement in The Massachusetts Register: A State Rec-cord (Boston, 1852), pp. 327-28.
19. Invoice, Southworth & Hawes to Mr. Burnet, January 1, 1850, author's collection.
20. Humphrey's Journal of Photography, vol. 7 (1856), p. 389. |
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