Before Lewis and Clark, Volume 1
Subtitle: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804 (Before Lewis and Clark)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: April 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780803233201
Subjects: History; History: American; U.S. - Discovery And Exploration; Fur trade; Missouri River Valley; Sources
First sentence: St. Louis, Missouri, today a great city in the heart of the continent, was from its beginning strategically located for the control of commerce and trade in a vast territory.