Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier
Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River. Led by the brothers Auguste and Pierre, the family not only engaged in land speculation, finance, and the fur trade but also acted as suppliers and advisers to expeditions and enterprises between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains--including the famous expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806.This is th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-2524-4
- EAN: 9780803225244
- Produktnummer: 4466656
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 509 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.8 cm 623 g
- Gewicht: 623
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