St. Louis’ French origins are explored in two new books with University of Missouri–St. Louis connections. They were reviewed together in an article in the Sunday edition of the St....
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J. Frederic Fausz, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, set out to explore the 250-year-old mystery of why and how French St. Louis was founded. The...
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...
