St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and its People, 1764-1865
St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1991. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering, green and color illustrated dust jacket with orange and yellow lettering, ix, 568 pp., bw and color illustrations. "Founded as a fur trading post in 1764, St. Louis grew into one of America's great..... More