. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. INDIAN VILLAGE SCENE The First White Man—The Frenchman The first white man to make his home in Missouri wasthe Frenchman. Probably the first white man to see Missouriwas the Spaniard, De Soto, but he did not stay. The Frenchwere the first explorers, the first traders, and the first set-tlers. The French were the first Missourians if we exceptthe Indians. They founded the first settlements along theMississippi; traded for or trapped the first furs along the 22 Hist
. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. INDIAN VILLAGE SCENE The First White Man—The Frenchman The first white man to make his home in Missouri wasthe Frenchman. Probably the first white man to see Missouriwas the Spaniard, De Soto, but he did not stay. The Frenchwere the first explorers, the first traders, and the first set-tlers. The French were the first Missourians if we exceptthe Indians. They founded the first settlements along theMississippi; traded for or trapped the first furs along the 22 History of Missouri and Missourians. wu < QO D 5z MiSSOURIANS 23 Missouri; planted and gathered the first crops; boiled the firstsalt; and mined the first lead. They named some of thestreams and cities as, Little Bomie Feinme (little good woman)and St. Louis, and thousands of their sons and daughters areliving in Missouri to-day. The French began coming to Mis-souri about 1700. They continued, to come here for a first settlers came from what is now Illinois, just east ofMissouri. Most of the French in Illinois had come fromCanada and some from lower Louisiana around Xew the first white Missourians, the Frenchmen, came from thenorth and the south. Missouri was to be a center state evenfrom tiie viewpoint of population. The Spaniard, 1770-1804 Although the French came first, they were soon to losetheir mother country, France. In 1762 France by a secrettreaty ceded to Spain all the Louisiana countr}-, i. e., all theland that she owned lying west of the Mississippi, but it wasnot until 1770 that Spa
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