Carl Ekberg is a professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. His many books include A French Aristocrat in the American West:¿ The Shattered Dreams of Delassus de Luzi¿s and he is a two-time winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize. Sharon Person is a professor of English specializing in English as a Second Language at St. Louis Community College, St. Louis Missouri.

Carl Ekberg is a professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. His many books include A French Aristocrat in the American West: The Shattered Dreams of Delassus de Luzières and Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country, and he is a two-time winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize. Sharon Person is a professor of English specializing in English as a Second Language at St. Louis Community College, St. Louis Missouri.

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Maps, Plans, and Illustrations

Preface

Chronology

Introduction: Beyond the Laclède-Chouteau Legend

Part 1. St. Ange de Bellerive and the Illinois Country

1. Fort d'Orleans and the Grotton-St. Ange Family

2. The Rise of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive

3. The Illinois Country in Transition, 1763-1765

4. Commandant St. Ange de Bellerive

5. The Village Emerges

Part II. Contours of Village Life

6. Logs and Stones: Early St. Louis Buildings

7. The Coutume de Paris Rules

8. Slaves: African and Indian

9. In Small Things Forgotten

10. Foundations of the St. Louis Fur Trade

11. End of an Era

Color Illustrations

Conclusion: St. Louis and the Wider World

Appendix A. St. Louis Counts

Appendix B. St. Louis Indian Slave Census, 1770

Notes

Index