The first complete and documented biography of this remarkable frontiersman, whose life encapsulated much of western American history up to about 1865, for he was by turns a mountain man, interpreter, guide, hotel operator, and gold miner. With Lewis and Clark from the moment of his birth, little "Pomp," whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, journeyed from North Dakota to the Pacific and back in the arms of his mother, Sacagawea. In his sixty-one years, he successfully integrated the voyageur lifestyle of his father's people, the proud Native American heritage of his mother's people,...
The first complete and documented biography of this remarkable frontiersman, whose life encapsulated much of western American history up to about 1865...
