This Day…

1850-Levi Strauss arrives in San Francisco with canvas for tents.  A miner tells him there are plenty of tents.  What  is needed is a durable pair of pants.

This Day…

1867-General William Tecumseh Sherman starts a plan to drive Indians out of the path of the transcontinental railroad.

This Day…

1822-Veteran fur trader William Henry Ashley publishes and advertisement in the St. Louis Missouri Republican calling for 100 young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source and to develop the fur trade there.