La Charrette: Village Gateway to the American West

by Lowell Schake

This first ever book on La Charrette Village illuminates its origin, its citizens and their culture when notables like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long visited. Schake reveals how seven... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595275389
• ISBN13: 9780595275380
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read and Share for American History Lovers

I am fortunate enough to have read the "rough" version of this fabulous book. Reading the finished copy and sharing it with my classes has been a thrill. Dr. Schake brings history to life for readers. I've been able to imagine being with famous explorers and sharing their early lifestyles because of the colorful writing style he's used. You don't have to be a history major to learn from this book. Have fun reading, learning, and virtually exploring our great nation.

Here is history at its best.

Lowell Schake, with each reading you invite me to journey with you to Charrette Creek, to the village of La Charrette. It is an adventure rich in detail that brings to full dimension this short-lived Missouri village. Here is history at its best. It is a step "through the looking glass" to a wonderland long past. Lowell Schake is a skilled craftsman. He creates pictures in motion that surround and engage the reader as perhaps only one who knows the land, who has researched its history could design. La Charrette informs and delights.

'La Charrette' is a first-rate and a very timely book

`La Charrette' is a first-rate and a very timely book for the 2004 Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. Since this is new, never before published information on the lives of Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, "Indian" Phillips and John Colter, it is a `must read' if one is interested in authentic and well documented material of this era. This was a book that I couldn't put down until I had finished reading it.

Excellent recovery of a lost history

Who knew a forgotten town in Missouri had played such an important part in American expansion westward? Great documentation of what must have been difficult lives for 7 families living on the edge of "civilization" in the early 1800s. This town was the melting pot of the west for Indians and Europeans. It was also the last town many famous explorers saw as they headed west. This has been the best information I have found on what life was like for my forefathers. A must read for those interested in ancestory as the author documents many names and dates.