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Book The Chouteaus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stan Hoig
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2010-06-08
  • ISBN : 082634349X
  • Pages : 453 pages

Download or read book The Chouteaus written by Stan Hoig and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, the vast, pristine land that lay west of the Mississippi River remained largely unknown to the outside world. The area beckoned to daring frontiersmen who produced the first major industry of the American West--the colorful but challenging, often dangerous fur trade. At the lead was an enterprising French Creole family that founded the city of St. Louis in 1763 and pushed forth to garner furs for world markets. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, at times taking wives among the native tribes. They provided valuable aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition and assisted government officials in developing Indian treaties. National leaders, tribal heads, and men of frontier fame sought their counsel. In establishing their network of trading posts and opening trade routes throughout the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, the Chouteaus contributed enormously to the nation's westward movement.

Book The Chouteaus and the Indian Trade of the West  1764 1852

Download or read book The Chouteaus and the Indian Trade of the West 1764 1852 written by Abraham Phineas Nasatir and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chouteaus

Download or read book The Chouteaus written by Stan Hoig and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 18th century, the vast land that lay west of the Mississippi River beckoned to daring frontiersmen, who produced the first major industry of the American West--the challenging, often dangerous fur trade. Stan Hoig provides an intimate look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade.

Book The First Chouteaus

Download or read book The First Chouteaus written by William E. Foley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau dominated trade and enterprise in the Mississippi Valley. In their various roles as merchants, Indian traders, bankers, land speculators, governmental advisors, public officials, and community leaders, the Chouteau brothers exerted a tremendous influence on westward expansion. This is the first full account of their lives and illustrious careers.

Book Before Lewis and Clark

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shirley Christian
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2009-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780803225244
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Before Lewis and Clark written by Shirley Christian and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the story of the Old World meeting the New, of the eastern United States discovering the West, and of a wealthy, powerful, charming, and manipulative family that dominated business and politics in the Louisiana Purchase territory before and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Book Kansas City  Missouri

Download or read book Kansas City Missouri written by Carrie Westlake Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Wyandotte County  Kansas

Download or read book History of Wyandotte County Kansas written by Perl Wilbur Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Leading Facts of New Mexican History

Download or read book The Leading Facts of New Mexican History written by Ralph Emerson Twitchell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early history from October 12  1492  to 1870

Download or read book Early history from October 12 1492 to 1870 written by Charles P. Deatherage and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early History of Greater Kansas City  Missouri and Kansas

Download or read book Early History of Greater Kansas City Missouri and Kansas written by Charles P. Deatherage and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholic Beginnings in Kansas City  Missouri

Download or read book Catholic Beginnings in Kansas City Missouri written by Gilbert Joseph Garraghan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Reporter

Download or read book Western Reporter written by Robert Desty and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book National Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chouteau s Chalk

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  • Author : Rosa Lane
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2019-02-15
  • ISBN : 0820354570
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Chouteau s Chalk written by Rosa Lane and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chouteau’s Chalk, Rosa Lane’s poems take a deep dive into the emotional and the erotic. Gender bent, her poems reside amid a tomboy’s emerging sexual identity within a world confined by heterosexual construction and its persistent mores. Her collection piques a countermythos that unfolds within a small fishing village opening a forbidden and hidden world with sensorial intensity and lyrical momentum. An epigraph from Audre Lorde’s notable work The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power hovers over every poem from birth through marriage, traversing calamities and holograms of desire, giving the “I” permission to assume full agency with power and dignity in a manner that is as acute as revelatory.

Book Founding St  Louis

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Frederick Fausz
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 1614233829
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Founding St Louis written by J. Frederick Fausz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a model of multicultural harmony. Historian J. Frederick Fausz offers a fresh interpretation of Saint Louis from 1764 to 1804, explaining how Pierre Lacl de, the early Chouteaus, Saint Ange de Bellerive and the Osage Indians established a "gateway" to an enlightened, alternative frontier of peace and prosperity before Lewis and Clark were even born. Historians, genealogists and general readers will appreciate the well-researched perspectives in this engaging story about a novel French West long ignored in American History.

Book Missouri Historical Society Collections

Download or read book Missouri Historical Society Collections written by Missouri Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: