The genesis of Missouri : from wilderness outpost to statehood /
When Missiouri became the twenty-fourth state in the Union in 1821, it was already heir to a rich and varied historical legacy. From 1673 until the Louisiana Purchase, Europeans of different nationalities, assisted by the Africans they brought with them, competed alternately with Indians and among t...
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
[1989]
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Table of Contents:
- Exploring the wilderness
- Missouri's French foundations
- Creating a Spanish barrier
- You cannot lock up an open field
- Villages and farmsteads, common fields and clearings
- Galleries, gumbo, and "La Guignolee"
- We are all now Americans
- The beginnings of republican government
- Pettifoggers, renegadoes, and impatient natives
- The turmoil continues
- Territory in transition
- An uneasy interlude
- Defending the American republic's western border
- A land of promise
- Beyond the Sabbath
- Missouri comes of age
- Epilogue : The legacy of colonial and territorial Missouri.
