Founding St. Louis: First City of the New West
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609490169 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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. 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. Louis and received the 2007 Missouri Governor's Award in the Humanities for Enhancing Community Heritage. Three of his many publications have won "best of the year"? awa
"View the American Frontier from West to East" according to 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 history. Americans tend to view the old "American frontier" as the edge of the expanding agricultural lands settled by English speaking people. The areas just to the east of lands still occupied by the various American Indian na. Bob Laclede said 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 Mississippi River and what drove their thoughts and enabled their personal success, and the success of the early days of the entire City of St. Louis.This book is extremely well researched and ties together many of the complex issue. Mark Sutter said Very Informative. 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. Louis can be attributed to the French traders and the huge contribution of their trading partners -- the Osage Indians. I was also somewhat dismayed to learn how the Jefferson administration greatly mistreated the Osage Indians
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. Historian J. 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.. 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
The story of the founding of St. An absolutely essential book for historians of St. Louis, of colonial Louisiana, of the Early Atlantic World, and of American history." --Stephen Aron, author of American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State"The details will fascinate, and every reader will learn something new, even those well-versed in the city's history. Louis in an entirely new way, as a multicultural city. 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 Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent"Correcting numerous errors that have burrowed into the historical record, Founding St. Louis digs deep to offer the most impressive history yet written of the city's French founders, of the old world they came from