This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Adventurous Americans Adventurous Americans The Redoubtable Mime
A 1734-born French girl from St Joseph on Lake Mohapo grows up at Mackinac and Chicago with first husband Pilotte de Sainte Ange. She later marries La Compt, guides Cahokia natives from danger, and dies in Cahokia in 1848 at 109. Also covers Maj Long and the Great American Desert myth, and a Confederate spy turned Hollywood actress, Moon of Memphis.
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St. Joseph
Lake Mohapo
Mackinac
Pilotte de Sainte Ange
Sainte Ange
Chicago
Cahokia
Mississippi
la Compt
George Rogers Clark
Tirais
Mme. la Compt
Hight
St.Louis
Mme. la Cortiot
Tom ‘Brady
Cahokia J
VY Rams Moon
Memphis
Tenn
Ohio
Tennessee
Mermphis
Sterling Price
Hollywood
Pola Negri
Mary Miles Minter
Greenwich Village
Unica