St. Louis
Title | St. Louis PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Van Ravenswaay |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780252019159 |
Publications
Title | Publications PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois State Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Illinois |
ISBN |
St. Louis
Title | St. Louis PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Barlow Stevens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
ISBN |
Lives of Fort de Chartres
Title | Lives of Fort de Chartres PDF eBook |
Author | David MacDonald |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2016-02-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0809334607 |
Fort de Chartres was a French fortification first built in 1720 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois, it was used as an administrative center for the province.
History of Saint Louis City and County
Title | History of Saint Louis City and County PDF eBook |
Author | John Thomas Scharf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1272 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
ISBN |
St. Louis Rising
Title | St. Louis Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Carl J. Ekberg |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2015-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0252096932 |
The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did more than Louis St. Ange de Bellerive. His commitment to the Bourbon monarchy and to civil tranquility made him the prime mover as St. Louis emerged during the tumult following the French and Indian War. Drawing on new source materials, the authors delve into the complexities of politics, Indian affairs, slavery, and material culture that defined the city's founding period. Their alternative version of the oft-told tale uncovers the imperial realities--as personified by St. Ange--that truly governed in the Illinois Country of the time, and provide a trove of new information on everything from the fur trade to the arrival of the British and Spanish after the Seven Years' War.
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society
Title | Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois State Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Illinois |
ISBN |