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Major Andrew Henry ( c. 1775 – January 10, 1832) was an American miner, army officer, frontiersman, trapper and entrepreneur. Alongside William H. Ashley, Henry was 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 1822 to 1832. [1]
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the American fur business, was a partner in both the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company and the firm of Ashley and Henry.
Later that year, Henry led a large expedition of 150 men up the Missouri River to the mouth of the Yellowstone River. There, they built a post that came to be known as Fort Henry in Montana. While exploring the area near Three Forks, he lost four men to Blackfeet warriors.
Jan 25, 2024 · Andrew Henry was a businessman, soldier, and fur trader who played an important role in the establishment of the Western Fur Trade. Henry is famous for building the first American trading post west of the Continental Divide and founding the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
Mar 27, 2013 · A short bio of fur trapper Andrew Henry, his start in the Missouri mines, his involvement with the Missouri River Fur Company, and his expeditions on the Upper Missouri in the 1820s.
Oct 21, 2019 · Jim “Old Gabe” Bridger was a peer and well-respected friend of Jedediah Smith. They both went west with William Ashley and Andrew Henry’s Ashley-Henry Company in 1822 and spent many seasons together trapping beaver across the West. Both were masters of survival, trailblazing, mapmaking and trading.
In April 1810, two MFC partners, Andrew Henry and Pierre Menard, led 32 men to the Three Forks area, where they established operations. Soon thereafter, they began to encounter stiff resistance from the Blackfeet.
Andrew Henry was, at that time, one of few men with personal experience running trapping and trading ventures in the Rocky Mountains. As partners in a new fur company, Henry would command in the field and Ashley would handle logistics and finance.
Oct 30, 2022 · One of the greatest legacies of William Ashley and Andrew Henry founding the American Fur Company in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 is the tradition of the annual mountain man rendezvous.
Dec 5, 2023 · This would be done by the so called Mountain Men who were working for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company headed by business partners William Ashley and Andrew Henry. These mountain men inaugurated a ten year period from 1823 - 1833, where the Bad Pass Trail was heavily traveled.
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