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St. Louis : child of the river, parent of the West
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- Creator
- by Dena Lange and Merlin M. Ames
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- English
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- St. Louis, Missouri : Webster Publishing Company, [1939]
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- 293 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
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- ocm02577087, ocm02577087
- Father Mississippi -- Auguste Chouteau, the boy pioneer -- Early St. Louis days -- Under three flags -- From St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean -- The winter harvest of early St. Louis -- On the trail of "King Beaver" -- St. Louis in the "Flatboat Age" -- The Christian churches and their messengers to the Indians -- An old French village becomes an American city -- Missouri grows and becomes the twenty-third state -- The romance of the rails -- The mingling of the peoples -- Building for a prosperous future -- New conquests over distance -- The wheels of industry -- When leisure hours come -- Our common civic life -- Appendices. Little journey about St. Louis -- Some facts about population increase -- The local government -- Art in St. Louis -- St. Louis industries -- Beginnings of things -- Early ownership of St. Louis -- The Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Events in the history of St. Louis