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"His-tory as They Lived It deserves to be placed within the rich context of Illinois Country historiography going back more than a century. . . . It brings together the fully ripened thoughts of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Country need such a book."--from the foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Settled in 1722, Prairie du Rocher was at the geographic center
of a French colony in the Mississippi Valley, which also included
other villages in what is now Illinois and Missouri: Cahokia,
Kaskaskia, Fort de Chartres, St. Philippe, Ste. Genevieve, and St.
Louis. Located in an alluvial valley near towering limestone
bluffs, which inspired the village's name--French for "prairie of
the rock"-- Prairie du Rocher is the only one of the seven French
colonial villages that still exists today as a small compact
community. The village of Prairie du Rocher endured governance by France, Great Britain, Virginia, and the Illinois territory before Illinois became a state in 1818. Despite these changes, the villagers persisted in maintaining the community and its values. Margaret Kimball Brown looks at one of the oldest towns in the region through the lenses of history and anthropology, utilizing extensive research in archives and public records to give historians, anthropologists, and general readers a lively depiction of this small community and its people.
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