. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . 26 History of du Cote, laid out in1762. That smalltown is now In Au-gust, 1763,Pierre La-clede Li-quest came fromNew Or-le-ans witha laro^e load of wodsto trade with the Redmen and seek a finetract of land to founda new town. Theheights where is built struckhim as just the spotfor his plan. The next yearAu-guste Chou-teau,La-cledes aid, hadthe land made clearfor a large town, towhich La-clede gavethe name of St. Lou-is, for his King, Lou-is XV. of France. The sketch yousee here is the first The French Settlers.
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . 26 History of du Cote, laid out in1762. That smalltown is now In Au-gust, 1763,Pierre La-clede Li-quest came fromNew Or-le-ans witha laro^e load of wodsto trade with the Redmen and seek a finetract of land to founda new town. Theheights where is built struckhim as just the spotfor his plan. The next yearAu-guste Chou-teau,La-cledes aid, hadthe land made clearfor a large town, towhich La-clede gavethe name of St. Lou-is, for his King, Lou-is XV. of France. The sketch yousee here is the first The French Settlers. 27 large well-built house put up in the town. Tis thefirst home of the well-known race of Chou-teaus. Up to this date St. Ange de Belle-rive, the chiefman here for the French Gov-ern-ment, had hiscamp in a place in Il-li-nois known as Fort Char-tres. He now came to St. Lou-is with his troops,and so this town got to be the one of great all the mencame to trade, andhere the com-merceof the State made itsnest in those days,just as it does in ourday on so vast asc
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