What prepared Praivate Francois LaBiche to go into the expedition with Capt. Lewis and Clark?

Answer 1

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"...experienced boatmen, and frontier traders, and that both knew several lower Missouri Indian languages. Labiche also was conversant in both English and French, which would prove to be vital in an involved chain of interpreters later needed to communicate with the Shoshone Indians. " 1