Sometime in 2017, Jack Mitch and Gerry Messmer decided to retrace the return route of William Ashley from the 1825 fur trappers rendezvous near Green River, Wyoming to St. Louis, Missouri. They call it "Ashley's Return". In southwest Wyoming, six men will begin their journey mounted on horses & mule negotiating a roughly 500-mile path north to the Bighorn River. There, other men will join to launch canoes & bullboat for water passage some 525 miles northward to the confluence of the Yellowstone River continuing northeasterly to the waters of the Missouri. Along this course, eight men will board a keelboat for the third-leg of this adventure navigating 860 miles southeasterly down the Mighty Mo to their journey's end.
The "Journey of the Keelboat Muskrat" facebook page is about the keelboat leg of this epic journey, from start to finish....
Information about the rest of the journey is captured in the Facebook page "Ashley's Return"
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