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      Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark

      Carl J. Ekberg

      Provides a fascinating biography of Francois Valle (1716-1783), placing him within the context of his place and time. Carl Ekberg focuses on Upper Louisiana in colonial times, vividly capturing the…

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      French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times

      Carl J. Ekberg

      Creates a picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, this book shows how land…

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      Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country

      Carl J. Ekberg

      Based on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, this title provides an overview of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley.

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      The Failure of Louis XIV’s Dutch War

      Carl J. Ekberg

      Begun as a royal adventure to enhance the glory of the king, the Dutch War sparked serious debate within the French government over the relationship of the ruler to the…

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      Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier

      carl J. Ekberg

      First published by Patrice Press in 1985. Second edition published in 1996 –Title page verso.

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      A French Aristocrat in the American West: The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzieres

      Carl J. Ekberg

      A narrative of the remarkable life of Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzieres, who fled revolutionary France in 1790 and trekked to the America. There he founded the city of New…

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      Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark

      Carl J. Ekberg

      A biography of Francois Valle that places him within the context of his place and time. Valle immigrated to Upper Louisiana as a penniless common labourer during the early 1740s…

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      History as They Lived It: A Social History of Praire du Rocher, Illinois

      Margaret K. Brown

      Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic centre of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and…

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      Dawn’s Light Woman & Nicolas Franchomme: Marriage and Law in the Illinois Country

      Carl J. Ekberg,Sharon K. Person

      Within this narrative of a married couple and their legal fight - based on French manuscripts and supported by the comprehensively annotated 1726 Illinois census - is also the story…

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      St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive

      Carl J. Ekberg,Sharon K. Person

      The standard story of St. Louis’s founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with…

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      St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive

      Carl J. Ekberg,Sharon K. Person

      The standard story of St. Louis’s founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with…

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      Kaskaskia under the French Regime

      Natalia Maree Belting,Carl J. Ekberg

      An historical look at the social and economic life of French colonial Illinois, the author draws on and translates from eighteenth-century French the Kaskaskia Manuscripts which French notaries used and…

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      Excavations at the Laurens Site

      Edward B Jelks, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Carl J Ekberg

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      Excavations at the Laurens Site

      Edward B Jelks, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Carl J Ekberg

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the "public…

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