Lee Kirk of OZARKs  Magazine has offered these words of praise for La Charrette.

After Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to explore the West, St. Charles wasn’t the last European settlement that they saw. A few miles up the Missouri River, they stopped off at La Charrette, a small village of French mountain men, Indians, Creoles, African-American slaves, and tough American pioneers, including the Boone family. 

Lowell Schake, who grew up in Charrette Township in Warren County, Missouri, spent years researching the long-gone settlement he had heard about in his childhood. The result is a fascinating story of a short-lived community that played an important role, however briefly, in America’s surge westward. Along with the story of the village, Schake’s text digresses to explain cultural and social habits of the people and the times, further enriching the volume for the reader. 

Equally as interesting as the story of La Charrette village is the story of Schake’s meticulous research. A retired university professor of animal science who has published hundreds of technical papers, he is careful to explain every step of the way where he gathered his data and why his research led him to the conclusions he drew. There is further information in extensive footnotes.

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