Auguste Chouteau: St. Louis Patron of the Corps of Discovery
Auguste Chouteau (1749–1829), co-founder of St. Louis and patriarch of its dominant mercantile family, is…
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St. Charles, Missouri
1 of the journal entries and analyses listed below were written there.
Analyses (4)
View allLetters, a Tailor, and a Trunk of Damaged Papers: Clark in St. Louis
1806-09-24September 24, 1806, at St. Louis. The only published daily journal for this date in…
Ninian Edwards in the Lewis & Clark Journals: A Figure at the Margins of the Record
The corpus of journal entries supplied for this synthesis contains zero references to Ninian Edwards.…
Salutes at Bellefontaine: Two Views of the Expedition’s Return to Settled Country
1806-09-22The entries of September 22, 1806, capture the Corps of Discovery's first encounter with a…
