Founding St. Louis: First City of the New West
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609490169 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Louis in an entirely new way, as a multicultural city. The story of the founding of St. "Combining vivid storytelling with meticulous research, Fausz helps readers see St. Louis now has the solid foundation it has deserved." --Jay Gitlin, author of The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion. In doing so, he shows us a future that could have been, a frontier based on economically fruitful cooperation rather than violence and expulsion." --Kathleen DuVal, author of The Native G
View the American Frontier from West to East Stephen E. Williams "Founding St. Louis, First City of the New West" is both way more and way less that an early history of St. Louis.* It is much more than a history of St. Louis because it provides a view of history unfamiliar to most Americans, even those relatively well educated in hi. Excellent History of St. Louis Early Development As a long time follower of St. Louis history, I found this is an excellent and very in depth review of the founders of St. Louis. Fred Fausz talks about the motivation that led the founders (Laclede and Chouteau) from the mountains in France to the shores of the Missis. "Very Informative" according to Mark Sutter. In-depth research and a knack for telling the story made this an enjoyable book to read. It is impressive that the early settlers were able to accomplish so much while enduring some pretty primitive times. I was surprised to learn how the entire success of early St. Lo
He received an AB degree in European history from Thomas More College in his native Kentucky; earned his PhD in early American history from the College of William and Mary, with Phi Beta Kappa honors; and was a fellow of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library, Chicago. In 2006, he was the lead organizer and program chair for the Ninth North
The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a model of multicultural harmony. Historians, genealogists and general readers will appreciate the well-researched perspectives in this engaging story about a novel French West long ignored in American History.. Historian J. Frederick Fausz offers a fresh interpretation of Saint Louis from 1764 to 1804, explaining how Pierre Lacl de, the early Chouteaus, Saint Ange de Bellerive and the Osage Indians established a "gateway" to an enlightened, alternative frontier of peace and prosperity before Lewis and Clark were even born