Seeking St. Louis
Subtitle: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000
Contributors: Robert Boyd (Contributor); Jan Garden Castro (Contributor); Gerald Early (Contributor); Wayne Fields (Contributor); Karen M. Goering (Contributor); Lee Ann Sandweiss (Editor)
Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1048
ISBN-13: 9781883982119
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Local history; Social history; Sources; History: American; American Literature (General); United States - State & Local - General; Missouri - Local History; Literary collections; Literary Criticism; History - U.S.; English; Missouri; Biography; Saint Louis (Mo.); American - General; History
First sentence: BORN IN LAON, FRANCE, Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1666 and sailed to Quebec, Canada, that same year, intending to do missionary work among the Indians.