Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams
β Scribed by Blevins, Win
- Book ID
- 108897778
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Tongue
- en-us
- Weight
- 668 KB
- Series
- American Dreamers
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781497649842
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β¦ Synopsis
The epic story of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacajawea, and his quest to unite the two worlds in which he was raised: posh European society and the mystic American wilderness
The son of two of Lewis and Clark's guidesβSacajawea and a French Canadian fur trapperβJean-Baptiste Charbonneau was born during one of the greatest adventures in American history. With the support of William Clark, he grew up in the well-to-do society of St. Louis and eventually made his way to Europe, where he became the welcome guest of kings.
But Charbonneau was a man of two dreams, and the Western wilderness pulled at his heart. It was there that he returned as a nineteenth-century mountain man, trader, and explorer.
Charbonneau is a moving novel based on the fundamental conflict in the American West during the first half of the nineteenth century: the clash of values between the white man and the American Indian. In the great...
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