General
Nagel, Paul C. 1977. Missouri: A Bicentennial History. W. W. Norton Co., New York.
Thomas, Rosemary. 1981. It’s Good to Tell You: French Folktales from Missouri. University of Missouri Press.
Canadian Museum of History: https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/introduction/
Native People
Ioway People: https://iowatribeofkansasandnebraska.com/ ; https://iowanation.org/about-us
Osage People: https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/
Olson, Greg. 2023. Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present. University of Missouri Press.
White, Richard. 1991. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge University Press.
Early French Explorers
Lee, Jacob. 2019. Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions along the Mississippi. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mercier_jean_paul_3E.html
French Settlements
Brown, Margaret Kimball. 2012. The Voyageur in the Illinois Country: The Fur Trade’s Professional Boatman to Mid America. Center for French Colonial Studies.
Castor, Peter J. 2004 The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisana Purchase and the Creation of America. Yale University Press.
Cleary, Patricia. 2011. The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: A History of Colonial St. Louis. University of Missouri Press, Columbia
Ekberg, Carl J. 1986. Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. Second Edition, 1995
Ekberg, Carl J. and Sharon K. Person. 2015. St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive. University of Illinois Press
Ekberg, Carl J. and Sharon K. Person. 2017. The Making (and Perpetuating) of a Myth: Pierre Laclède and the Founding of St. Louis. Missouri Historical Review 111(2), 87-103.
Englebert, Robert and Andrew N. Wegmann, editors. 2020 French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World. Louisiana State Press.
Gitlin, Jay. 2010. The Bourgeois Frontier: French Town, French Traders, and American Expansion. Yale University Press.
Gladu, André and Michel Brault. 1977. Film “C’est pu comme ça anymore.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuU0TILjtts
Nash, Linda Clark. 2012. Journaux de/The Journals of Pierre-Louis de Lorimier 1777-1795. Septentrion, Québec; Baraka Books, Montréal
Peterson, Charles A. 2001. Colonial St. Louis: Building a Creole Capital. The Patrice Press, Tucson, Arizona.
Sharp, Mary Rozier and Louis J. Sharp, III. 1981. Between the Gabouri: A History of Ferdinand Rozier. Genealogical R. & P.
Slinkard, Charlotte. 2024. The Girardeaus: An Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Family in Upper Louisiana. Southeast Missouri State University Press, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Thomas, Rosemary Hyde. 1981. It’s Good to Tell You: French Folktales from Missouri. University of Missouri Press, Columbia.
St. Louis: https://www.ninepbs.org/blogs/history/chouteaus-journal-in-his-own-words/
St. Louis: https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2012-10-26/old-maps-indicate-that-laclede-and-chouteau-werent-first
Dennis Stroughmatt website: http://www.creolefiddle.com/
Dennis Stroughmatt and L’Esprit créole video from the American Folklife Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heay7zhmC1w
Old Mines: http://www.oldmines.org/
Cape Girardeau: https://www.cityofcapegirardeau.org/about/history
Missouri Pages