In a message dated 2/16/2003 5:46:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, a Quebec lister wrote about Toussaint Charboneau: << Just happen to start reading a book: People of the First man---The first hand account of Prince Maximillian's expedition up the Missouri river 1833-1834. Water colors by Karl Bodner. E.P.Dutton & Co -1976-- ISBN 0-525-17732-9 In the Editor's preface: < Of a remarquable group of hardy man, perhaps the hardiest was wily old Toussaint Charbonneau who was well into his seventies when Maximillian encountered him at Fort Clark. Charbonneau has been working as a guide. interpreter, and trader along the Missouri river for anyone who would hire him since the 1790s. He had served as interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sacajawea, the Shoshone Indian woman who played a crucial role in the success of that expedition, was one of his many wifes. As Maximillian sourly noted, he was forever chasing after women, and five years after the prince's visit he still at it. Francis Chardon, then in command at Fort Clark, reported in his journal that, having bought a fourteen-year-old Assiniboin girl who had been captured by the Arikaras, he sold her to Charbonneau whose "marriage" was solemnized thusly: "... the young men at the Fort and two rees( Arikaras) gave the Old Man a splendid Charivaree, the Drums, pans. Kittles &c Beating; gun fireing &c. The old gentleman gave a feast to the Men, and a glass of grog- and went to bed with his young wife with the intention of doing his best" > Well not so bad.........! A Quebec lister >>

Hello: For those who smiled when they read about "wily old Toussaint" I offer the following baptism. Celestine Charbonneau baptised Aug 20, 1829. Parents were "Toussaint and Indian". Recorded in Church of St. Louis King of France, St Louis. And for those who say that St Louis was too far away for a baptism, I want to say that Joseph Graveline who met Lewis and Clark in the Dakotas, had his children's baptisms recorded in St Louis also. Richard Graveline Georgia ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: [ILSTANNE] Toussaint Charbonneau > In a message dated 2/16/2003 5:46:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, a Quebec > lister wrote about Toussaint Charboneau: > > << Just happen to start reading a book: > People of the First man---The first hand account of Prince Maximillian's > expedition up the Missouri river 1833-1834. > E.P.Dutton & Co -1976-- ISBN 0-525-17732-9 > > In the Editor's preface: < Of a remarquable group of hardy man, perhaps the > hardiest was wily old Toussaint Charbonneau who was well into his seventies when > Maximillian encountered him at Fort Clark. Charbonneau has been working as a > guide. interpreter, and trader along the Missouri river for anyone who would hire > him since the 1790s. He had served as interpreter on the Lewis and Clark > expedition. Sacajawea, the Shoshone Indian woman who played a crucial role in > the success of that expedition, was one of his many wifes. As Maximillian sourly > noted, he was forever chasing after women, and five years after the prince's > visit he still at it. Francis Chardon, then in command at Fort Clark, reported in > his journal that, having bought a fourteen-year-old Assiniboin girl who had been > captured by the Arikaras, he sold her to Charbonneau whose "marriage" > was solemnized thusly: > "... the young men at the Fort and two rees( Arikaras) gave the Old Man a > splendid Charivaree, the Drums, pans. Kittles &c Beating; gun fireing &c. > The old gentleman gave a feast to the Men, and a glass of grog- and went to bed > with his young wife with the intention of doing his best" > > > Well not so bad.........! > > A Quebec lister