Founding St. Louis: First City of the New West (MO)
"Combining vivid storytelling with meticulous research, Fausz helps readers see St. Louis in an entirely new way, as a multicultural city. He brings to life its fascinating French, Osage Indian, and other peoples, as well as its natural and urban landscape and the central importance of international commerce. 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 ofThe 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 and the new one they created. An absolutely essential book for historians of St. Louis, of colonial Louisiana, of the Early Atlantic World, and of American history." --Stephen Aron, author ofAmerican 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. The story of the founding of St. Louis now has the solid foundation it has deserved." --Jay Gitlin, author ofThe Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion" --Jay Gitlin, author ofThe Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion"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 and the new one they created. An absolutely essential book for historians of St. Louis, of colonial Louisiana, of the Early Atlantic World, and of American history." --Stephen Aron, author ofAmerican 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. The story of the founding of St. Louis now has the solid foundation it has deserved." --Jay Gitlin, author ofThe Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion