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5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Thin gruel Mar 03, 2005
By Kodjo
This book is thin gruel indeed. It is double spaced and large type presumably to make it thicker. Illustrations are of poor printed quality and too small. The author covers little if any new ground and is given to much conjecture with little documentation or footnoting. Particularly thin are the Mormon Batallion and California periods given the ample documentation that exists on these periods. I have read everything serious that is published on Baptiste, and this adds nothing to what is already out there. The fact is, little historical material exists on Baptiste, not even a photograph, although his contemporaries (like Beckwourth) were photographed. I waited longer than normal for the book and finished with it in one sitting disappointed. The most honest and best documented appraisal of Charbonneau's life is the 2001 Journal of Oregon History article, "Sacajawea's Son: by Albert Furtwangler reprinted in 2004 by Oregon Historical Society Press and the 1933 Anne W Hafen biography.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 from one Charbonneau about another Charbonneau Jul 22, 2010
By Neauxx
"Neauxx"
I read everything I can about Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Tousaint and Sakagawea and the L&C expedition. This is the best book about Jean Baptiste I have read. There is not a lot of wild speculation to fill in the gaps of written record. The book is well written and believable for the most part. It follows the known parts of Baptite's life pretty accuately, to my knowledge. A very interesting read. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting a very near non-fiction account of Jean Baptiste's life. Being a Charbonneau decended from the same line of Olivier Charbonneau that Tousaint is, I find this book a "must read" for anyone interested in the "real" Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.
Chuck Charbonneau
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 History at its Best Apr 21, 2005
By Maggie Starr
This informative and pleasurable read about Charbonneau, the much loved baby "Pomp" on the Corps of Discovery, puts a face on the man that went on to become successful throughout the charted but yet un-tamed West, in his own right. I feel as though I know so much more about this person due to Mr. Ritter's excellent research. Above all, as a novice history devotee, I appreciate the flow of the writing as it almost anticipates what your next question may have been about Charbonneau. The heavy handed, over-satiated blanket of scholarly approach would contrast greatly with the pure simplicity of this character, as he is portrayed.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
I Enjoyed it! Apr 08, 2005
By Mary McDonnell
I'm giving it five stars partly because I thought a couple of the other reviewers were unfair. Not everybody wants the super in-depth study of a subject. I liked the book precisely because it skips the minutia and focuses on the most interesting elements of the story. I also appreciated the author's effort to engage the reader in reasonable supposition about Baptiste's undocumented activities. More on Charbonneau's time in Germany would have been useful, but otherwise I thought this was a stimulating and entertaining read.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Jean Baptise Charbonneau bio Feb 26, 2005
By David P. Diaz
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was a man before his time, he was a model of diversity, for which the modern world now craves. He was equally at home with many of the western European languages and people as he was with the English-speaking western United States. He lived a life that many only dream about, from a sophisticated upper class life to the hard, back breaking life of an adventurer who lived off the land.
I was chagrined to learn that "Pomp" had left no written records of his own. These would have most surely been a real historical treasure. We can only guess at what he might have wrote. Mike Ritter's offerings as to the thoughts of Jean Baptiste seem as real and plausible as any could be. The book is a wonderful account of the life of a largely ignored member of the Discovery Corp.
Overall, the author has done a superb job of researching the life of this larger-than-life historical figure, and has brought us a wonderful account of his exploits and adventures.
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