02668nam 2200601 450 991081337290332120230126211837.00-8093-3341-4(CKB)3710000000088611(EBL)1632044(SSID)ssj0001112244(PQKBManifestationID)11623219(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112244(PQKBWorkID)11161289(PQKB)10371403(MiAaPQ)EBC1632044(OCoLC)875134211(MdBmJHUP)muse34879(Au-PeEL)EBL1632044(CaPaEBR)ebr10837772(CaONFJC)MIL576500(OCoLC)870893416(EXLCZ)99371000000008861120140225h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrHistory as they lived it a social history of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois /Margaret Kimball Brown ; Carl J. Ekberg forewordSouthern Illinois University Press edition.Carbondale, Illinois :Southern Illinois University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (380 p.)Shawnee booksDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-3340-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.The French regime: the beginnings -- Governance in the Illinois -- Land, life, and labor -- Prairie du Rocher under the French regime -- Under three flags -- Old and new -- Becoming American -- On into a new century -- Present and future."History as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. . . . 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."-from the foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St. LouShawnee BooksPrairie du Rocher (Ill.)HistoryPrairie du Rocher (Ill.)Social conditions977.3/92Brown Margaret Kimball1654811Ekberg Carl J872563MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813372903321History as they lived it4006880UNINA