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In this vicinity in the winter of 1825-26, James Bridger, Jedediah Strong Smith, William L. Sublette, and others who had come west with General W.H. Ashley made a cache containing 75 bales of furs, mostly beaver, with an estimated value of $150,000. Later, most of the furs were taken by pack train and water to the fur markets at St. Louis.
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