| Show tho the founding oia ol 01 a city st louis la 11 the summer of 1703 amidst general interest of tho the people of new apa a lutle boat or bicow set upon its solitary voyage up the sippi to fauna a new city in the wilder noes it was commanded by list ionic Lav lodo a frenchman had bad wondered from tle the declivities of the tha pyrenees Pyre nees and found a homo home in am amenta brien iio was a lark darl small email agile mau man u trader mid bad adventurer who loved tle wild woods and hardened burdened to toil and weather lie he was unmarried and teemed to care only for his bis colony uia his were twenty or thirty trader udera ti trappers trap pera mechanics und and a few N ore his boat was wag luden laden with cearo goods to bo be sold to the savages and with some implements of war and now new Orle otlean Ot leaa alap it is in said a email french town was full ot of excite went at the lie prospect of opening a new world worl 1 ot of tribue and ot of exploring more carefully tho the great river whose desolate shores were still known only to a few and as the tha rude vessel set out oat on its slow voyage it was followed by the good idabel of 01 tho the impulsive people Ligue Li guesto lita made liia lid way beyond the sell boll tary lary settlement ut at natchez the untenanted cliffs of vicksburg and reached the mouth ot of tho the missouri lie ila turned buck back and on a fino fine and swelling plateau that rose high above boy the angry of the mississippi pointed ont the site where when he would plant his hia little colony hero here lie he exclaimed with the pride ol of a founder would spring up one of tho the finest cities of america hero hare he hoped the french numo name anil and laug oage would ever flourish and culled called it after his native king st bt louis hero la ha may have anci ail a now new franco france would appear in in the ho wilderness and his namo name descend among his bis countrymen as the chief of their heir explorers but one gravo grave disappointment already lung hung over tile tho bold colonists of st jouie already the vast possessions which france franca lad had once hold held in america had cassad from the hands bands of its feeble king in 1757 tho the french hold held the greater part pait ol of north america Ams riCa and encircled tho the Liag english liall colonies with a lino line of hostile fortresses at quebec they ruled over tho the unexplored limits of canada Clinn da in the fat far west their settlements battlements reached from the lakes inkes to illinois and the mississippi whilo while at new orleans orleana they commanded tho the mouth month of the great river river anil and governed bill all the sources of its trade at one moment they hoy may lita have hoped to expel the english intruders from tho the limits of kentucky and drive them slowly from western pennsylvania I 1 sod and now new york lint but all these fair schemes hail had been shattered by the disasters Basters di of tho the recent war quebec had fallen canada was conquered when Li guesto arrived arri veil at the he 10 lonely he I 1 site ile of st lonh bouli ho he learned that ant all akol tho cast of tho river had bad been coded to the B english ag liall and scarcely y had ho he fouli founded ded his bis colony thu the elarce n roe he hail had hoped of a now new empire for or france than newl news arrived that tho the whole territory west ot of the river with new orleans itself bad been trans corrod to tho the spanish king dy by 1763 prance france laid bad wholly abandoned all ail claim to it in north america its im monso possession passe suddenly away uni anil the people of 0 new orleans bud and tit st louis lonia with intense indignation found themselves called upon to obey a spanish rule it was in february 1761 when the foe oa still lingered in III the a river t that hot Ligue Lii gneeta ato and life his settlers landed on the rod broad plateau tho was inclement tile the uit air cold they built a few louses houses of logs lees und and with songs and laughter disturbed the prim primeval ovAl silence along tile the river ran it ridge adro of forest behind them lay it boundless prairie they were lost in ia the iho wilderness our roundel by countless savages bat the tha french abiona to have hava possessed a not u ural r a I 1 attraction tor for tho the rollo of the w ends and the missour Indi onil did them no harm they only crowded around their cubing cabins begging and some gome times Bt ealing and readily sold sola their f ars to Li gueste who soon boon engrossed tho the chief part of the trade the town grew tinder libil hi eye F ranch french rattlers tattlers tatt sott lers ca camo ina from the ibe villages vill ageg on tho the illinois tida aide to avoid the english engli bli rale and one oa famous t froni from the northwest was faast st abigia rench reach general the iha I 1 companion 1 0 panion in kra hta t of pontiac Fon tiao lie ile j torald amed wilh Li gueste of 0 tho the erly early settlers bottlers chouteau Chou tean tema a and ardent frenchman was wai one oca of the tha most noted with labadie and cerro cerre A mill was waa built a house honsa ol of logo loga covered willi nicil a small tort fort it park rk auld out ont had anil a place d armes amos the indiana Indi iton an aa yet seemed friendly in 1719 pontiac once k rl tha west the scourge of 0 the tha anglish settlements camu tu to visit lna his ou old friend st hi ango I 1 und was hospitably lioti iby entertained ut at ins his house all tho the pomplo of 0 st louis came to gazo ut ht their once powerful friend but Punt ijac wits like it fallen alien ok o k it dying tree baruck by tho ilia light ning fling lie ile hail had loat oat LIB his fiti ilu enco mul aud yielded loli leil to tho fire ol of the whites one day lio its crossed croaa uil tu to the illinois illinoia side una and was killed by u indian ilia mortal roe foe ilia HIB boly body was ered anti by tho the core or of st hi align anti and the tha favor of ottha the people of st louis lonia tho the woodland lanil king wua buried with abato ly lynt rites esou on tho ilia bunks banks of the father of 0 livers sto st atiga chouteau atil hoped to found a city its purely french or rouen and even lu ili 1766 bighea tor for tho the tulo rule of 0 u native liing king now oilaug Oi lauB discontented rahel billious hellions lions lious bad driven away rou don antonio uloa the first arst spanish governor who hid had come to its ita ond end thu the guy buy people still clunk clung to their ancestral race but in it 1770 don alexander URo U ll eilly illy with a force landed at now new orleans lie ho maila made chort shrift with the murmuring french i five avo of the most active of the malcontents lie ho ordered to be shot six sent bent to pine away in the hot prisons of havana irim nii the iho sorrowful people submitted to their oppressor and ahou a came to st louis it obeyed tho the conquerors quer ors it became u spanish oily city the file spanish rule anlo was wild mild the F french r ouch titles wora were respected Li guesto lived quietly in his hid tudo rude mansion in the ilia midst ol of a largo estate on 01 market walnut main and inn second streets reeta Bt an and a died in 1778 main maia street was tit it first L li rue ilae royale au an enormous tr traille aillo now covers the bluff where Ligne Li gaeste ste and st ango lived in HI prim primeval oval nl solitude when the american Ka began the government t took 0 ok the th side bide of the colonists colo the fench aided aidea us possibly not altogether without a hope ol of recovering their vast in america Ame lint hut the tha war bad nearly proved prevail fatal to st lit louis tile the indian tribes on the eastern side eide of the river liver roused to fury fary by tho the english emig planned its they ibey know tint that it was waa the custom ol of the he people to go oat every morning to till the land behind the a city ity and the savages prepared to attack it tack them at their work un the nth ot 0 may 1780 a bani band of hostile ind indians 1 and crossed tho the river glided stealthily to tho the rear ol of the town and surprised the unlucky people potty forty were killed others bete taken keu prisoners but bat it wall bud bad been raised around the town uvo five feet high and a u cannon was discharged into the midst ot of the assailants as they approached pro ached the gate they flail dismayed the ilia cowardly spanish governor ro re mainol shut up tip in his louse house until the danger lea had passed but and the people saved themselves abo prisoners were carried carrie cl away to the wilderness by the indians nd ians and the ilia narratives narrative a of those who returned tell of their lordships harda Lord hipa ships suld and perils la III language that recalls the most startling of coopers Coo pors tales peace came Bt Louia sank antoro pose lose among the even t a of its early history was the g of a band of pirates on a lofty rook rock called grand tower between st ht louis lauia and tho the ohio A desperate desp crato gang of all races and colors color they preyed upon the honest traders of tho the mississippi and wore only dislodged by a strong force in 1785 1783 the river roso rose me BO high as nearly to sweep away the whole settlement in 1800 spain coded ceded the territory to napoleon and in 1803 it was waa purchased by the united states st louis became it a republican city it was destined to prout profit most largely by the 19 growth of republican principles to fiare in a tho the progressive impulses of the now new world and mia to remember the periods when it obeyed its french and kings as only the of a better future st louis is ono one of the ilia oldest of tho the western towns inagh w was 1 1 founded in 1781 1784 Loil laville 1788 0 f a rati 1750 the northwestern cities are far fai later in origin or ig chicago was laid out in 1830 at end ri a milwaukee founded in 1831 1834 in ia 1821 tit bt jouis had a po population pul action of in 1880 it t has become as Li Ligne guesto sto foretold boreto ld otte ODO of the tha fluent a 0 the cities ot of amerl america it numbers probably halt 0 million of people its name liaa has spread over the world as on one 0 of the banters canters of advancing trade the rivalry between and st louis in ili wealth pop population und and wo we trust above all in in honesty and patriotism is on one 0 of the he striking circumstances ol of western progress both no doubt well deserve success bat could fiona Li gueste lacleda and his friend st bt auge look down aown upon the modern modera bt louis crowded with the products of the aba west rich in the traits of advancing elvi civilization liza one of 01 the capitals of freedom they would retrace its amory with exultation exaltation and a rejoina oleo tint it hul hal become banning freo t that h treo no taint of lingered lin gerej gerel on thu the banks of tho the rattier rather of rivers that a pure pore was vw making its way among its people that it bail bad boon been snatched from the of rebellion and reaction tion and was hereafter to be known for its it devotion to the union buta come all its ita prosperity no oily among us ni has baa ind had a moro more romantic ro mantia history 1 although the history of 0 every city hua has an a n intense and lasting interest jeanene law lawrence in ia Har harpers pors weekley |
