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La Société Chouteau Collection Bibliography

Much of the Chouteau Societe Collection is listed in the selected bibliography below. The individual items also are cataloged and available through the University's online catalog, MERLIN (using this link will open a new browser window). The Collection does not circulate according to agreements with the Société and standard policies of the Dept. of Special Collections. Photocopying is allowed but is subject to the condition of the material and approval of the Special Collections Librarian.


After Coronado; Spanish exploration northeast of New Mexico, 1696-1727; documents from the archives of Spain, Mexico, and New Mexico. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1966, c1935]
MNL SpecColl Snyder F799 .T45 1966

Behrmann, Elmer H. The story of the Old Cathedral parish of St. Louis IX, King of France, St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis: Church of St. Louis IX, King of France, c1949.
MNL SpecColl Snyder BX1417.S3 B44 1949

Blevins, Winfred. Charbonneau, man of two dreams: a novel. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, c1985.
MNL SpecColl Snyder PS3552.L45 C4 1985

Caruso, John Anthony. The Mississippi Valley frontier; the age of French exploration and settlement.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F352 .C35 1966


Cunningham, Mary B., 1914- The founding family of St.Louis. St. Louis: Midwest Technical Publications, c1977.
MNL SpecColl Snyder CS71 .C552 1977

Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York: procured in Holland, England, and France. Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1853-1887.
MNL SpecColl Snyder q F122 .D66 v.1-15

Du Barry, Jeanne Becu, comtesse, 1743-1793. Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry; with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV, written by herself. With a special introduction by Robert Arnot. Akron, O., St. Dunstan Society [1903].
MNL SpecColl Snyder DC135.D8 A4 1903a

Eakin, O. B. Record of original entries to lands in Jackson County, Missouri: with additional records relating to first land ownership.[Independence, Mo.]: O.B. and J.C. Eakin, c1985.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F472.J2 E24 1985


Eccles, W. J. (William John) France in America. [1st ed.] New York, Harper & Row [1972]
MNL SpecColl Snyder E18.82 .E25 1972

Finiels, Nicolas de. An account of upper Louisiana. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c1989.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F352 .F5613 1989

Foley, William E., 1938- The first Chouteaus, river barons of early St. Louis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1983.
UMK MNL SpecColl Snyder F474.S253 A24 1983


Franzwa, Gregory M. The story of old Ste. Genevieve. St. Louis: Patrice Press c1967.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F474.S26 F7 1967

Fregault, Guy. Le grand marquis, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, et la Louisiane.2e ed. Montreal, Fides [1966]
MNL SpecColl Snyder F1030 .V68 1966

Garraghan, Gilbert J. (Gilbert Joseph), 1871-1942. Saint Ferdinand de Florissant; the story of an ancient parish. Chicago, Loyola University Press, 1923.
UMK MNL SpecColl Snyder BX1418.F5 G3


Guerard, Albert Leon, 1880-1959. France; a modern history. New ed. rev. and enl. by Paul A. Gagnon. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1969]
MNL SpecColl Snyder DC38 .G85 1969

Hamilton, Edward Pierce. The French and Indian Wars; the story of battles and forts in the wilderness. [1st ed.] Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1962.
MNL SpecColl Snyder E195 .H23 1962


Hamilton, Edward Pierce. The French army in America. Ottawa, Museum Restoration Service, 1967.
MNL SpecColl Snyder UA702 .H3 1967

Hoffhaus, Charles E. Chez les Canses: three centuries at Kawsmouth: the French foundations of metropolitan Kansas City. Kansas City: Lowell Press, c1984.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F474.K29 F84 1984

It's good to tell you: French folktales from Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981.
MNL SpecColl Snyder GR111.F73 I86 1981


Levron, Jacques, 1906- Pompadour. Translated by Claire Eliane Engel. New York, St. Martin's Press, [1963]
MNL SpecColl Snyder DC135.P8 L443 1963

Mason, F.Van Wyck (Francis van Wyck), 1901- The battle for Quebec. Boston, Houghton, [c1965]
MNL SpecColl Snyder E199 .M376 1965

Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973. The Sun King. New York, Harper & Row [1966]
MNL SpecColl Snyder DC125 .M5 1966a

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France. Boston, Little, Brown [1972]
MNL SpecColl Snyder F1030.1 .M6 1972

O'Meara, Walter. Guns at the forks. Englewoods Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1965].
MNL SpecColl Snyder F159.P6 O4 1965

Peterson, Charles E. (Charles Emil), 1906- Colonial St. Louis: building a Creole capital. Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1949.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F474.S257 P46 1949

Point, Nicolas, 1799-1868. Wilderness kingdom, Indian life in the Rocky Mountains: 1840-1847: the journals & paintings of Nicolas Point. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967]
MNL SpecColl Snyder q E78.N77 P6 1967


Ries, Maurice, 1907-1986. The Mississippi Fort, called Fort de la Boulaye [1700-1715. The first French settlement in present day Louisiana.[New Orleans] 1936.
UMK MNL SpecColl Snyder F351 .R54 1936

Ross, Michael, 1905- Bougainville. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1978.
MNL SpecColl Snyder G256.B6 R67 1978

Ryan, Lee Winfree. French travelers in the southeastern United States, 1775-1800 Bloomington, Ind.: Principia Press, 1939.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F213 .R96 1939

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 1675-1755. Saint-Simon at Versailles. edited and translated by Lucy Norton. New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, 1980, c1958.
MNL SpecColl Snyder DC130.S2 A35213 1980b

Schlafly, James J., 1919- Light in the early West: Berenice Chouteau New York: Benziger Bros., c1959.
MNL SpecColl Snyder PS3537.C43 L54 1959

Unrau, William E., 1929- The Kansa Indians; a history of the Wind People, 1673-1873. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1971]
MNL SpecColl Snyder E99.K2 U75 1971

Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre de, 1633-1707. La correspondence de Vauban relative au Canada.[Quebec?] Ministere des affaires culturelles, 1968.
MNL SpecColl Snyder F1030 .V35 1968

Zoltvany, Yves F. The French tradition in America. New York, Harper & Row [1969]
MNL SpecColl Snyder F1030 .Z6 1969b


Special Collections is a non-circulating and non-browsing resource center. The Special Collections Reading Room is open to researchers Monday through Friday during the academic year. Public service hours for the current semester are listed at http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col-about/hours but researchers are encouraged to call ahead for verification of hours due to University intersessions and other events. Special Collections is located on the fourth floor of the Miller Nichols Library at 5100 Rockhill Road in Kansas City, Missouri. All inquiries concerning access to the collections should be addressed to Special Collections Library Information Specialists Teresa Gipson or Kelly McEniry.

Teresa Gipson
Special Collections Library Information Specialist
Miller Nichols Library
5100 Rockhill Rd
Kansas City, MO 64110
(816) 235-1532
Teresa Gipson
Fax (816) 333-5584
Kelly McEniry
Special Collections Library Information Specialist
Miller Nichols Library
5100 Rockhill Rd
Kansas City, MO 64110
(816) 235-1532
Kelly McEniry
Fax (816) 333-5584

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