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By
Amanda M. Douglas
AUTHOR OF “A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD BOSTON,”
“A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD DETROIT,”
“A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD WASHINGTON,” ETC.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1903
Copyright, 1903.
By Dodd, Mead and Company.
Published, September, 1903.
BURR PRINTING HOUSE,
NEW YORK.
CONTENTS
Cities that have grown from small hamlets seldom keep register of their earlier days, except in the legends handed down in families. St. Louis has the curious anomaly of beginning over several times. For the earliest knowledge of how the little town looked I wish to express my obligations for some old maps and historical points to Mr. Frederick M. Crunden, Public Librarian, Miss Katharine I. Moody, and Colonel David Murphy.
A. M. Douglas.
The bell had clanged and the gates of the stockade were closed. There were some houses on the outside; there was not so much fear of the Indians here, for the French had the art of winning them into friendship. Farms were cultivated, and the rich bottom lands produced fine crops. Small as the town was twenty