Seeking St. Louis : voices from a river city, 1670-2000 /
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| Imprint: | St. Louis : Missouri Historical Society Press : Distributed by University of Missouri Press, c2000. |
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| Description: | xxxiii, 1048 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4388664 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Robert R. Archibald
- Preface / Lee Ann Sandweiss
- Introduction / Eric Sandweiss
- Marquette's First Voyage / Pere Jacques Marquette
- Narrative of the Settlement of St. Louis / Auguste Chouteau
- Account of the Battle of Fort San Carlos / Fernando De Leyba
- from An Account of Upper Louisiana / Nicolas De Finiels
- Address to the People of Upper Louisiana / Amos Stoddard and Meriwether Lewis
- from The Journals of Lewis and Clark / William Clark
- from Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Hannah Lewis / Hannah Lewis
- Letters, 1818-1852 / Rose Philippine Duchesne
- Lines Written on the Bank of the Mississippi
- The Old Maid of St. Louis
- The Affair of St. Louis / Angus Umphraville
- from Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America / Gotteried Duden
- History of St. Louis
- Ballad of the Year of the Surprise / Wilson Primm
- Diary entries
- The Chouteau House / Matthew C. Field
- from American Notes / Charles Dickens
- Death of Mike Fink / Joseph M. Field
- from A Summer in the Wilderness / Charles Lanman
- from Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself / William Wells Brown
- A Night View of Our Courthouse / Anonymous
- from The Mysteries of St. Louis / Henry Boernstein
- from Life in the Far West; or, The Comical, Quizzical, and Tragical Adventures of a Hoosier / Adolphus M. Hart
- The Great Fire in St. Louis / Henry Lewis
- from Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House / Elizabeth Keckley
- St. Louis on the Eve of War / James Thomas
- from Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, Written by Himself / William Tecumseh Sherman
- from Souvenirs of My Time / Jessie Benton Fremont
- Missouri / Anthony Trollope
- from Les Etats-Unis Pendant La Guerre Civile, 1861-1865 / Auguste Laugel
- The Planters' House / Francis Grierson
- A Hung Jury
- A Lapse of Twenty Years / Solomon Franklin Smith
- Early Recollections / Anne Lucas Hunt
- from The Log of Commodore Rollingpin: His Adventures Afloat and Ashore / John Henton Carter
- from Travels on the Lower Mississippi, 1879-1880 / Ernst Von Hesse-Wartegg
- A Guide to the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis / Henry Shaw
- from St. Louis the Future Great City of the World: and Its Impending Triumph / Logan Uriah Reavis
- The Future Great City of the World
- Ode to Captain James B. Eads / Rebecca Morrow Reavis
- Journalism from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Joseph Pulitzer
- from Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain
- from Excursion Through America / Nicolaus Mohr
- from Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself / Orrick Johns
- from A Book About Myself
- Journalism from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and St. Louis Republic / Theodore Dreiser
- from At Fault
- The Maid of Saint Phillippe
- Elizabeth Stock's One Story / Kate Chopin
- What's the Matter with St. Louis? / William Marion Reedy
- from The Crisis / Winston Churchill
- Tweed Days in St. Louis / Claude H. Wetmore
- from The Education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams
- from Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition / Marietta Holley
- Ten Million Women / Edward Garner Lewis
- Her America by Edna Wahlert / The Potter's Wheel
- The Statue of St. Louis / Rolla Wells
- from The Big Cinch / Leo A. Landau
- The River
- Sunset, St. Louis
- Red Maples
- Red Birds / Sara Teasdale
- A Western Boy's Lament
- Little Mack
- Plaint of the Missouri 'Coon in the Berlin Zoological Gardens / Eugene Field and Thomas Woods Stevens
- from The Pageant of St. Louis
- from St. Louis: A Civic Masque / Percy MacKaye
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch account of East St. Louis riots / Carlos F. Hurd
- from The St. Louis Movement / Denton Snider
- from The Spirit of St. Louis / Charles A. Lindergh
- letter to Edna McCourt
- letter to St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- The Dry Salvages / T. S. Eliot
- Of Work and Wealth / W. E. B. Du Bois
- from King of the Hill / A. E. Hotchner
- from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou
- from The Lost Boy / Thomas Wolfe
- from Meet Me in St. Louis / Sally Benson
- from Miles: The Autobiography / Miles Davis
- from Mrs. Palmer's Honey / Fannie Cook
- The Little Cousins / Peter Taylor
- from Nigger: An Autobiography / Dick Gregory
- The State of Grace / Harold Brodkey
- St. Louis
- from Anatomy of Me / Fannie Hurst
- from The Tie That Binds: A Novel of a Youth Who Seeks to Understand Life / Herman Dreer
- Arch
- Three Sisters
- Union Station / Charles Guenther
- St. Louis Return / William S. Burroughs
- Running Dry/Running Off / Jay Landesman
- Lines for Men of the Greater Interior
- Riverfront, St. Louis
- St. Louis Midday
- St. Louis Midnight
- Herman Avenue Holiday
- East St. Louis
- June Night on the River / John Knoepfle
- One Moment in Eternity
- Walking Down Westgate in the Fall
- Ginkgoes in Fall
- An Ending
- By Al Lebowitz's Pool / Howard Nemerov
- from Memoirs
- from A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur / Tennessee Williams
- Why I Live Where I Live / Stanley Elkin
- To Live with a Landscape
- Ways of Returning
- The River
- At Frank 'n' Helen's / Constance Urdang
- Marriage a la Mode / Jonathan Raban
- from Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange
- from White Palace / Glenn Savan
- The Origins of River Styx / Michael Castro
- from The Twenty-Seventh City / Jonathan Franzen
- from Dancer's Debt / John Lutz
- New Houses / Kathleen Finneran
- Honoring the Female Olympian of the Century
- Wedge Wall, Huge Hand
- Carryover
- River of Bones and Flesh and Blood / Eugene B. Redmond
- The Block
- Addendum to "The Block"
- "We Are in Your Area" / Mona van Duyn
- Headwaters
- What's In a Name
- An Entirely New Idea
- For Whose Use / Donald Finkel
- from The Jericho Iteration / Allen Steele
- Mississippi / William H. Gass
- from Due Diligence / Michael A. Kahn
- from Annotations / John Keene
- Sunday Morning Ball at the J / David Carkeet
- from Still Life in Horlem / Eddy L. Harris
- from The Lunatic Cafe / Laurell K. Hamilton
- St. Louis: The Midwestern Long Good-bye / Gerald Early
- from All American Dream Dolls / David Haynes
- Dragon-watching in St. Louis
- Family Reunion / Carter Revard
- The Flume
- Meditation: The River Road / Carl Phillips
- Our Cruel, Tangled Past / Wayne Fields
- At the Marjeanette Apartments
- Route 64
- Mr. Henry Shaw Comes to Rest
- Spring / Brian Taylor
- Listening to Miles.
