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Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark (Missouri Biography Series)
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by Carl J. Ekberg
Sales Rank: 1316720
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
Published by: University of Missouri Press November 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0826214185
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0826214188
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Book Description
In François Vallé and His World, Carl Ekberg provides a fascinating biography of François Vallé (1716-1783), placing him within the context of his place and time. Vallé, who was born in Beauport, Canada, immigrated to Upper Louisiana (the Illinois Country) as a penniless common laborer sometime during the early 1740s. Engaged in agriculture, lead mining, and the Indian trade, he ultimately became the wealthiest and most powerful individual in Upper Louisiana, although he never learned to read or write.
Ekberg focuses on Upper Louisiana in colonial times, long before Lewis and Clark arrived in the Mississippi River valley and before American sovereignty had reached the eastern bank of the Mississippi. He vividly captures the ambience of life in the eighteenth-century frontier agricultural society that Vallé inhabited, shedding new light on the French and Spanish colonial regimes in Louisiana and on the Mississippi River frontier before the Americans arrived.
Based entirely on primary source documents-wills and testaments, parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, and Spanish administrative correspondence-found in archives ranging from St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve to New Orleans and Seville, François Vallé and His World traces not only the life of François Vallé and the lives of his immediate family members, but also the lives of his slaves. In doing so, it provides a portrait of Missouri's very first black families, something that has never before been attempted. Ekberg also analyzes how the illiterate Vallé became the richest human being in all of Upper Louisiana, and how he rose in the sociopolitical hierarchy to become an important servant of the Spanish monarchy.
About The Author
Carl J. Ekberg is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of several books, including French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times and Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier. He resides in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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