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 tlie iivst 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 Hi
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 tlie iivst 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. MlSSOURIANS 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 Bonne 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 New the first white Missourians, the Frenchmen, came from thenorth and the south. Missouri was to be a center state evenfrom the viewpoint of population. The Spaniard, 1770-1804 x\lthough the French came first, they were soon to losetheir motlier country-, France. In 1762 France by a secrettreaty ceded to Spain all the Louisiana cotmtry, i. e., all theland that she owned lying west of the Mississippi, but it wasnot tmtil 1770 that Spain sent a govern
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