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 book can be purchased at the Felix Vallé State Historic Site in Ste. Genevieve or from Amazon.
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 his house and its restoration to what is now the most outstanding example of French Colonial architecture. The book also contains a genealogy of the Bolduc family by Anton J. Pregaldinand appendices by the restorer of the home, Ernest Allen Connally, FAIA.
This book can be purchased at the Bolduc House, Felix Vallé State Historic Site in Ste. Genevieve as well as from Amazon
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 the coming of the Americans. A must read for anyone interested in Ste. Genevieve and French Colonial America.
538 pages, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index.
Can be purchased at Felix Vallé State Historic Site and the Jacques Guibourd House in Ste. Genevieve as well as on Amazon