Before Lewis and Clark
Subtitle: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: March 10, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780374529581
First sentence: When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark descended on the shores of the Mississippi River at the end of 1803 to organize their "Voyage of Discovery" up the Missouri River and beyond, they knew next to nothing about the Louisiana Purchase region, which would eventually form all or part of fifteen states.