[Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Thu May 1 06:11:52 EDT 2008
On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:29 PM, Lynda wrote:
> While doing geneology research for folks I've had occasion to
> communication
> with the folks at the Missouri History Museum. They even publish
> their
> stuff in French, Spanish and English. A lot of the old legal
> documents I've
> gotten were still being written in French until the early 1800s.
The primary early exploration route was the Mississippi. St. Louis, of
course, is a French name and indicates the influence. The purported
first town of any size west of the Mississippi, coming from the East,
was and is St. Genevieve, which is south of St. Louis. Very
interesting house building design there, including vertical poles,
like the early forts.
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