A Little Girl in Old St. Louis
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About This Book
"The bell had clanged and the gates of the stockade were closed. There were some houses on the outside; there was not so much fear of the Indians here, for the French had the art of winning them into friendship. Farms were cultivated, and the rich bottom lands produced fine crops. Small as the town was twenty years before the eighteenth century ended, it was the headquarters of a flourishing trade. The wisdom of Pierre Laclede had laid the foundation of a grand city. The lead mines even then were profitably worked, and supplied a large tract of the Mississippi River east and west..."
Chapters (23)(click to expand)
- A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER I—RENÉE DE LONGUEVILLE
- CHAPTER II—OLD ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER III—A NEW HOME
- CHAPTER IV—THE SOWING OF A THORN
- CHAPTER V—WITH A TOUCH OF SORROW
- CHAPTER VI—BY THE FIRESIDE
- CHAPTER VII—AT THE KING’S BALL
- CHAPTER VIII—THE SURPRISE
- CHAPTER IX—PRISONERS
- CHAPTER X—IN THE WILDERNESS
- CHAPTER XI—WAS EVER WELCOME SWEETER
- CHAPTER XII—HER ANSWER
- CHAPTER XIII—PASSING YEARS
- CHAPTER XIV—AT THE BALL
- CHAPTER XV—GATHERING THISTLES
- CHAPTER XVI—THE RISE IN THE RIVER
- CHAPTER XVII—RIVALS
- CHAPTER XVIII—A FINE ADJUSTMENT
- CHAPTER XIX—THIS WAY AND THAT
- CHAPTER XX—WHEN A WOMAN WILL
- CHAPTER XXI—FROM ACROSS THE SEA
- CHAPTER XXII—A NEW ST. LOUIS
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