Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier Iain Cameron Williams mining and pollution

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Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier Iain Cameron Williams mining and pollutionBefore 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