Divided loyalties in a doomed empire : the French in the West : from New France to the Lewis and Clark Expedition / by Royot, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…From Quebec to the "Pays d'en haut" -- New France goes West -- The wilderness at stake: the colony at the crossroads -- Life in the Pays des Illinois at mid-eighteenth century -- Shifting identities -- French culture in transition -- The Métis -- French America seen from France -- The French background of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Across the great ethnic divide : the French in the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- The French around and against the Expedition.…”