Dealmaker Reader No. 1011: French history of St. Louis

About this missouri communities edition

This edition follows St. Louis from its founding as a French fur-trading post on the west bank of the Mississippi to the river city that became the Gateway to the West. It looks at the families, the trading routes and the street names that still carry the French imprint.

Read it if you want the St. Louis story before the Arch: who chose the site, why the river mattered, and how a frontier post became a metropolitan region of independent businesses.

Publication facts

Series number: Dealmaker Reader No. 1011.

Subject: Missouri communities.

Setting: St. Louis, MO (latitude 38.627, longitude -90.1994).

Key search term: French history of St. Louis.

Format: free digital flip-book, readable on phone, tablet or desktop.

Publisher: Amerishop Services LLC, St. Louis, Missouri. Phone 442-413-0440.

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Open the reader with the button on this page. Pages turn with a swipe or arrow keys, and the table of contents is on the first spread. The publication is free; there is nothing to sign up for to read it.

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