{"product_id":"9781628451474","title":"History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People and its Principal Interests","description":"\u003cb\u003eHISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, VOL. 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Sidney Douglass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from Preface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbridged Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter I: Archaeology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter II: Adventures of De Soto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter III: French Explorers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter IV: Indian History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter V: Ste. Genevieve District\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VI: Cape Girardeau District\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VII: District of New Madrid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VIII: Government Under France and Spain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter IX: Social Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter X: Transfer to the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XI: American Territorial Government\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XII: Period from 1804 to 1821\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XIII: Protestant Immigration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XIV: New Madrid Earthquake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XV: Statehood Attained\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION IV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XVI: General Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XVII: Ste. Genevieve and St. Marys\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XVIII: Cape Girardeau County Towns \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XIX: New Madrid and Madison Counties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XX: Washington and Pebry Counties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXI: Wayne and Jefferson Counties \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXII: St. Francois, Bollinger and Pemiscot Counties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXIII: Dunklin and Mississippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXIV: Towns Of Six Counties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXV: Political, Civil and Military\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXVI: Creation of New Counties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION V\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXVII: General Movements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXVIII: Regimental Histories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION VI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXIX: Movements Since the Civil War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXX: Towns Founded Since Civil War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION VII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXI: Early Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXII: Public Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXIII: Institutions of Higher Learning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION VIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXIV: Social Life and Industries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXV: Religious History - Continued\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXVI: Railroads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXVII: General Status\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXVIII: The Newspapers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XXXIX: Some Biographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWindham 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. 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