History as they lived it : a social history of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois

History as they lived it : a social history of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois / Margaret Kimball Brown.

"History as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. ... It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book."--The...

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Main Author: Brown, Margaret Kimball
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
Series:Shawnee books.
Subjects:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Social conditions
Prairie du Rocher (Ill.) > History.
Prairie du Rocher (Ill.) > Social conditions.
Illinois > Prairie du Rocher
History
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Summary:"History as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. ... It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book."--The foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St. Lou
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780809333417
0809333414
130645249X
9781306452496
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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