TY - BOOK ID - 77899596 TI - History as they lived it PY - 2014 SN - 0809333414 9780809333417 130645249X 9781306452496 9780809333400 0809333406 PB - Carbondale DB - UniCat KW - Prairie du Rocher (Ill.) KW - Social conditions. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899596 AB - "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. Lou ER -