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Download or read book The Building of St. Louis written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter B. Stevens
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ISBN 13 : 9781331738770
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Building of St. Louis written by Walter B. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Building of St. Louis: From Many Points of View by Notable Persons On a December day of 1763, Pierre Laclede rode to the summit of a gentle hill and looked eastward through the tree tops below to the Mississippi. He turned to Auguste Chouteau, who was beside him, and said: "He was delighted with the situation. He did not hesitate a moment to form there the establishment which he proposed. Besides the beauty of the site, he found there all the advantages that one could desire to found a settlement which might become considerable hereafter." The hill from which the founder viewed the site of St. Louis was where the court-house stands today. It became to two generations a landmark. In the town talk of that early period it was referred to as "The Hill." Auguste Chouteau was a boy of thirteen years and four months. He was wise for his age. He remembered to write in his journal, with firm, careful hand, a narrative of this finding of the site for the settlement. Laclede and the stepson had left the flotilla and the rest of their party in winter quarters at Fort Chartres, forty miles down the river. They had crossed to the Missouri side and had explored thoroughly the country to the bluffs overlooking the Missouri river near its mouth. They had seen what Charlevoix had observed on his voyage forty years before and had described: "I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half a league, but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterward it gives its color to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." Laclede and Chouteau rode southward, leaving the precipitous cliffs of limestone from which they had viewed this union of the Missouri and Mississippi. Their route was over the rolling prairies, then almost devoid of forest growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295029945
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Building of St. Louis written by Walter Barlow Stevens and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358413230
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Building of St. Louis written by Walter Barlow Stevens and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Building of St. Louis written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter B. Stevens
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010394433
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (944 download)
Download or read book The Buliding of St. Louis From Many Points of View by Notable Persons written by Walter B. Stevens and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ron J. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149590
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend written by Ron J. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in the American story. The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master, Lieutenant Colonel Travis, against the Mexican army in the early hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched the battle’s last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar and questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the revolutionary capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident candor. With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched through plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court documents. Their decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe’s biography, alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the younger brother of the famous escaped slave and abolitionist narrator William Wells Brown, as well as the grandson of legendary trailblazer Daniel Boone. This book traces Joe’s story from his birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery—which, in a grotesque irony, resumed after he took part in the Texans’ battle for independence—to his eventual escape and disappearance into the shadows of history. Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend recovers a true American character from obscurity and expands our view of events central to the emergence of Texas.
Author : Lea VanderVelde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019975408X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Dred Scott written by Lea VanderVelde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. --from publisher description.
Author : Camille N. Dry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104663438
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The Pictorial Guide to St Louis written by Camille N. Dry and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark R. Cruvellier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558099
Total Pages : 1504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture written by Mark R. Cruvellier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context. The chapters address fundamental structural elements and systems: columns, walls, beams, trusses, frames, tensile structures, arches, domes and shells. Each chapter is subdivided into two parts: • The essays – introduce the chapters with the reprinting of a curated set of essays and excerpts by various authors that uniquely address how particular structural elements or systems relate in essential fashion to architectural design concepts. • The model studies – physical models of the overall structural systems of several notable contemporary buildings from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are illustrated with large photographs, detail close-ups, and views of their external forms and internal spaces that establish the exceptional qualities of these projects in connecting structural form to architectural design objectives. Mosaic layouts complete the chapters with a collection of photographs of yet more models whose particular details and unique features serve to extend the visual repertoire of the structural type being considered. The combination, juxtaposition and mutual positive reinforcement of these two collections, one largely textual and the other image based, provides the reader with unique and multifaceted insights into how structural forms and systems can be related to architectural design intentions. Conveyed by a strong and deliberate graphical design format, this assembly of materials gets to the very essence of structures within the context of architecture, and will inspire students and practitioners alike to make strategic design decisions for their own projects.
Author : Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 384965933X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book St. Louis - The Fourth City, Volume 4 written by Walter Barlow Stevens and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book of dates. It does not abound in statistics. It avoids controversies of the past and prophecies of the future. The motive is to present in plain, newspaper style a narrative of the rise and progress of St. Louis to the fourth place among American cities. To personal factors rather than to general causes is credited the high position which the community has attained. Men and women, more than location and events, have made St. Louis the Fourth City. The site chosen was fortunate. Of much greater import was the character of those who came to settle. American history, as told from the Atlantic seaboard points of view, classed St. Louis as "a little trading post." The settlement of Laclede was planned for permanence. It established stable government by consent of the governed. It embodied the homestead principle in a land system. It developed the American spirit while "good old colony times" prevailed along the Atlantic coast. Home rule found in St. Louis its first habitat on this continent. This is volume four out of four, continuing the many biographies of the most important persons in St. Louis history.
Author : Frank Peters
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826206794
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Architecture of St. Louis written by Frank Peters and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of St. Louis has undergone substantial physical changes in recent years--dramatic new structures have been built in the rejuvenated downtown district and throughout the urban area; neglected buildings have been put to new, innovative uses; and historic neighborhoods and landmarks have been restored. Illustrating and describing over two hundred years of architecture from both the city and the surrounding region, A Guide to the Architecture of St. Louis includes over 500 photographs, elevation drawings, plans, diagrams, and maps. In addition, the entry for each structure gives the address, the name of the architect, the date, the date of construction, and descriptive and historic information. Introductory essays provide an overview of architectural developments in the city and stress its unique characteristics, such as its private streets and vernacular structures. Sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter, American Institute of Architects
Author : Marilynne Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933370712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book St. Louis in Watercolor written by Marilynne Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Louis in Watercolor is a compilation of information about borrowed ideas and famous firsts in St. Louis architecture. St. Louis, the first major metropolitan city west of the Mississippi, is unique in its architectural heritage. The architectural history of many of the buildings are re-creations or interpretations borrowed from other well-known structures around the world. Many of the ideas for new structures are the first of their kind. Artist and historian Marilynne Bradley's love for St. Louis architecture is reflected in her watercolors as a way of preserving these former and present historic scenes in St. Louis that may not last forever. Each of her watercolors explores the subject from a different viewpoint, allowing a personal statement for each work of art.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Butler Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Engineering Index written by John Butler Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The American Architect and Building News written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
