Old Cahokia: A Narrative and Documents Illustrating the First Century of Its History (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Francis McDermott

9780266603696: Old Cahokia: A Narrative and Documents Illustrating the First Century of Its History (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266603696 ISBN 13: 9780266603696

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Old Cahokia: A Narrative and Documents Illustrating the First Century of Its History

The present volume is intended to focus attention on Cahokia in commemoration Of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary Of its founding. In it a selection Of documents hitherto unpublished, unava'ilable in English, or otherwise inaccessible illustrate the first century of the town's history - the period in which its population and nature were largely French, though its people lived successively under the French, British, Virginian, and North West Territorial governments.

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