St. Louis rising : the French regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive /
A myth-busting history focusing on Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, the forgotten figure who guided a great American city through its infancy.
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond the Laclède-Chouteau legend
- Part I. St. Ange de Bellerive and the Illinois Country
- Fort d'Orléans and the Grotton-St. Ange family
- The rise of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive
- The Illinois Country in transition, 1763-1765
- Commandant St. Ange de Bellerive
- The village emerges
- Part II. Contours of village life
- Logs and stones: early St. Louis buildings
- The Coutume de Paris rules
- Slaves: African and Indian
- In small things forgotten
- Foundations of the St. Louis fur trade
- End of an era
- Conclusion: St. Louis and the wider world.
