Before Lewis and Clark
Subtitle: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804
Edition: Pap/Map edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9780806134673
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 18th Century; U.S. - Discovery And Exploration; History - U.S.; History: World; Missouri; Sources; United States - State & Local - General; History; Frontier and pioneer life; Fur trade; Missouri River Valley
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.