Bøger af Robert Syndey Douglas

HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, VOL. 1 By Robert Sidney Douglass Excerpt from Preface This territory of Southeast Missouri was first visited by De Soto about the year 1540. The next white men who saw it were the adventurous voyagers from Canada who reached the Mississippi from the north and passed down toward its mouth. Marquette and Joliet and La Salle all visited this section, or at least saw it as their canoes floated down the great stream. No attention however was paid to the district until Renault, the agent of the Company of the West came with his miners and four hundred slaves to Port Chartres with instructions to explore the country for the precious metals. This was about 1720. In his search for gold and silver he penetrated to what is now the county of Ste. Genevieve, finding no traces of gold or silver, but finding abundant deposits of lead ore. . . Abridged Contents SECTION I Chapter I: Archaeology Chapter II: Adventures of De Soto Chapter III: French Explorers Chapter IV: Indian History SECTION II Chapter V: Ste. Genevieve District Chapter VI: Cape Girardeau District Chapter VII: District of New Madrid Chapter VIII: Government Under France and Spain Chapter IX: Social Life Chapter X: Transfer to the United States SECTION III Chapter XI: American Territorial Government Chapter XII: Period from 1804 to 1821 Chapter XIII: Protestant Immigration Chapter XIV: New Madrid Earthquake Chapter XV: Statehood Attained SECTION IV Chapter XVI: General Development Chapter XVII: Ste. Genevieve and St. Marys Chapter XVIII: Cape Girardeau County Towns Chapter XIX: New Madrid and Madison Counties Chapter XX: Washington and Pebry Counties Chapter XXI: Wayne and Jefferson Counties Chapter XXII: St. Francois, Bollinger and Pemiscot Counties Chapter XXIII: Dunklin and Mississippi Chapter XXIV: Towns Of Six Counties Chapter XXV: Political, Civil and Military Chapter XXVI: Creation of New Counties SECTION V Chapter XXVII: General Movements Chapter XXVIII: Regimental Histories SECTION VI Chapter XXIX: Movements Since the Civil War Chapter XXX: Towns Founded Since Civil War SECTION VII Chapter XXXI: Early Schools Chapter XXXII: Public Schools Chapter XXXIII: Institutions of Higher Learning SECTION VIII Chapter XXXIV: Social Life and Industries Chapter XXXV: Religious History - Continued Chapter XXXVI: Railroads Chapter XXXVII: General Status Chapter XXXVIII: The Newspapers Chapter XXXIX: Some Biographies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.