The History of Pettis County, Missouri: Including an Authentic History of Sedalia, Other Towns and Townships, Together with ... Biograhical Sketches ...The Printery, 1882 - 1108 pages |
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... Louis for some repairs ; and two members of the expedition , Messrs . Thomas Say and T. R. Peale , improved the time by surveying a group of twenty - seven ancient mounds which occu- pied ground that is now all covered over by the ...
... Louis for some repairs ; and two members of the expedition , Messrs . Thomas Say and T. R. Peale , improved the time by surveying a group of twenty - seven ancient mounds which occu- pied ground that is now all covered over by the ...
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... Louis Academy of Sciences , " 1857 , Dr. Kock reports that in the year 1839 he dug up in Gasconade county [ as that county then was ] the bones of a mastodon , near the Bourbeuse river . The skeleton of this gigantic creature was buried ...
... Louis Academy of Sciences , " 1857 , Dr. Kock reports that in the year 1839 he dug up in Gasconade county [ as that county then was ] the bones of a mastodon , near the Bourbeuse river . The skeleton of this gigantic creature was buried ...
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... Louis ' land , and named the river itself St. Louis . And thus it was that our State of Missouri first became a part of historic Louisiana , and passed under the nominal ownership and authority of France . The next historic appearance ...
... Louis ' land , and named the river itself St. Louis . And thus it was that our State of Missouri first became a part of historic Louisiana , and passed under the nominal ownership and authority of France . The next historic appearance ...
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... Louis now stands . This was the nearest spot to the mouth of the Missouri which at all met his idea , and he began ... Louis , in honor of his supposed sovereign , Louis XV . This very territory had been yielded up to Spain in 1762 , but ...
... Louis now stands . This was the nearest spot to the mouth of the Missouri which at all met his idea , and he began ... Louis , in honor of his supposed sovereign , Louis XV . This very territory had been yielded up to Spain in 1762 , but ...
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... Louis , giving it a consid- erable start , both in population and business . The Indians , too , being generally more friendly toward the French than the English , came over to St. Louis to trade their peltries , instead of going to ...
... Louis , giving it a consid- erable start , both in population and business . The Indians , too , being generally more friendly toward the French than the English , came over to St. Louis to trade their peltries , instead of going to ...
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