Opening the Ozarks: a historical geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve district, 1760-1830.(Geographical Reviews)(Book Review)

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OPENING THE OZARKS: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830. By WALTER A. SCHROEDER. xxi and 551 pp.; maps, bibliog., index. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0826-213987.

The Ste. Genevieve district, on the western banks of the Mississippi River south of Saint Louis, played a vital role in the early settlement of Missouri by Europeans. With an economic base of agriculture and lead mining, the area served as a funnel for the peopling of the eastern Ozarks. In Opening the Ozarks, Walter Schroeder puts the region ...

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