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

Brown, Margaret Kimball

ISBN 10: 1880397579 / ISBN 13: 9781880397572

Published by The Patrice Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2005

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2005. Very Good softback book. A square, tight and clean copy. Signed by the author. Covers just lightly rubbed. 348pp. (Tt).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois
• Publisher: The Patrice Press, Tucson, Arizona
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880397579
• ISBN 13: 9781880397572
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Once every two or three decades a book is published casting new light on almost forgotten towns of the middle Mississippi Valley. Natalia Belting's Kaskaskia Under the French Regime is one. Carl Ekberg's towering Colonial Ste. Genevieve is another. Now, Margaret Kimball Brown takes us back to 1722, the founding of Prairie du Rocher, and brings us forward to the twenty-first century. Wedding the skills of a trained and careful historian to a delightful brand of journalism, she presents this fascinating study of a lively little community. The appearance of History As They Lived It at this particular time is most welcome, for it brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book. Carl J. Ekberg, Ph.D., author of Colonial Ste. Genevieve, An Adventure in the Mississippi Valley