Nearly one year since his last appearance at the Bauhaus Kaffe, St. Francois County historian, Bob Schmidt, welcomes you to join him on Saturday December 3, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for a booksigning and discussion of his book entitled “Boys of the Best Families in the State” Co. E 2nd Missouri Confederate [...]
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Margaret Kimball Brown 348 pp + xxii, illus., maps, appendix, references, index, paperback only, Illinois historian Margaret Kimball Brown describes Prairie du Rocher from its founding in 1722 to the twenty first century. Many Prairie du Rocher habitants migrated across the Mississippi to Ste. Genevieve in search of salt, lead, and new farm land. This [...]
Louis Bolduc: His Family and His House Carl J. Ekberg 184 pp + x, 74 illustrations, bibliography, index Historian Carl Ekberg presents the story of Louis Bolduc who built his mid-Mississippi French Colonial style house in the New Town of Ste. Genevieve about 1793. In addition to describing Bolduc and his family, the book describes [...]
The quintessential book on Ste. Genevieve history before the Louisiana Purchase. It covers the Illinois Country and Ste. Genevieve, the Old Town, Native American interactions, earning a living, society on the frontier, slavery French style, life and death, parent and child, daily life, as well as town government, priest and parishioners, the New Town and [...]
Kaskaskia Under the French Regime Natalia Maree Belting I’m currently at the library and we are looking at this book – what a great find! This book is full of information on Kaskaskia and full of parish records and other gems of genealogical information. There’s a wealth of info, please check out the amazon.com page [...]
Veterans and Events in the Civil War In Southeast Missouri Volume II by Bob Schmidt This book has now been reprinted in an attractive soft cover, replacing the older comb-bound version, by Camp Pope Bookshop of Iowa City, IA. The content of the book remains the same and includes substantial research relative to Southeast Missouri. [...]
By David Fiedler, 2003 Read an excerpt! Book Description During World War II, more than fifteen thousand German and Italian soldiers came to Missouri. This was no invasionary force; rather these were prisoners of war, part of a flood of almost a half-million men captured and sent to the United States, held here until the [...]
Company E 2nd Missouri Cavalry Bob Schmidt © 2002/2003-04 to order, please send $29.95 plus $3 shipping and handling to: Bob Schmidt 5984 Hwy Y French Village, MO 63036 Also for sale at Odile’s Linen and Lace and the Interpretive Center in Ste. Genevieve Preface to the book: Accepting a challenge made in 1999 for [...]