Before Lewis and Clark : the story of the Chouteaus, the French dynasty that ruled America's frontier
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 509 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-483) and index. |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2004.
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| ISBN: | 0374110050 (alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Among a people of strange speech
- First generation: Pierre Laclède Liguest
- Haughty children of the middle waters
- Business of St. Louis
- Auguste and Pierre, greatly loved and greatly feared
- New rulers, new ways
- Intrigues and possibilities
- Enveloped in a cloud of miseries
- Dreaming big--and stumbling
- Third generation
- Auguste and Pierre: men of property
- Pierre Jr.: gentle Creole, driven tycoon
- A.P. Chouteau: star-crossed hero
- François and Bérénice: together to a new place
- Pierre Jr.: position, advantage, and perhaps vanity.