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010 $a 2003064176
020 $a0374110050 (alk. paper)
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100 1 $aChristian, Shirley,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84183814
245 10 $aBefore Lewis and Clark :$bthe story of the Chouteaus, the French dynasty that ruled America's frontier /$cShirley Christian.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2004.
300 $a509 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [439]-483) and index.
505 00 $tMap: Chouteau Country -- $tLaclede-Chouteau Family Tree -- $g1.$tAmong a People of Strange Speech -- $g2.$tThe First Generation: Pierre Laclede Liguest -- $g3.$tHaughty Children of the Middle Waters -- $g4.$tThe Business of St. Louis -- $g5.$tAuguste and Pierre, Greatly Loved and Greatly Feared -- $g6.$tNew Rulers, New Ways -- $g7.$tIntrigues and Possibilities -- $g8.$tEnveloped in a Cloud of Miseries -- $g9.$tDreaming Big - and Stumbling -- $g10.$tThe Third Generation -- $g11.$tAuguste and Pierre: Men of Property -- $g12.$tPierre Jr.: Gentle Creole, Driven Tycoon -- $g13.$tA. P. Chouteau: Star-Crossed Hero -- $g14.$tFrancois and Berenice: Together to a New Place -- $g15.$tPierre Jr.: Position, Advantage, and Perhaps Vanity.
520 1 $a"The year was 1804. In the little French Creole village of St. Louis on the Mississippi River, where the brothers Auguste Pierre and Pierre (Cadet) Chouteau were the leading figures, there was great uncertainty about the future. Nevertheless, the Chouteaus and all of St. Louis welcomed Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as the two men prepared for their spring voyage up the Missouri River to explore the new lands and search for a route to the Pacific Ocean." "Before Lewis and Clark is the saga of the Chouteaus, the dynasty that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From St. Louis, founded by the family four decades before the arrival of Lewis and Clark, the Chouteaus built fortunes as land speculators, financiers, Indian agents, and, above all, fur traders. The Chouteaus conquered the more-than-two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River, put down the first European roots at the future site of Kansas City and in present-day Oklahoma, and left their names and imprints on lands stretching to the Canadian border."--BOOK JACKET.
600 30 $aChouteau family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024999
650 0 $aPioneers$zMissouri$zSaint Louis$vBiography.
650 0 $aFrench Americans$zMissouri$zSaint Louis$vBiography.
650 0 $aBusinessmen$zMissouri$zSaint Louis$vBiography.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zMissouri River Valley.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125603
651 0 $aSaint Louis (Mo.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116833
651 0 $aMissouri River Valley$vBiography.
651 0 $aMissouri River Valley$xHistory.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003064176.html
852 00 $bglx$hF474.S253$iA225 2004