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Reavis, L. U.; Holems, Nathaniel; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Scott, J. W.; Greeley, Horace; Darby, William; Brown, B. Gratz; Gibson, Charles. Saint Louis: The Future City of the World . St. Louis: Gray, Baker and Co, 1875. [format: book], [genre: history; narrative]. Permission: St. Louis Mercantile Library
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Pictures and Illustrations.

Dedication.

Preface.

An Explanatory Word.

Prophetic Voices About St. Louis.

Saint Louis: The Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. Letter from Judge Nathaniel Holmes.

Dedicatory.

Daniel Randall Garrison.

A Historical Review of Saint Louis, from Its Foundation to the Present Time. Saint Louis, the Future Great City. Historical Review of St. Louis. Geographical Location of St. Louis. Political Condition of North America Prior to the Founding of St. Louis. The Laclede Expedition — Its Object and Character. The Founding of St. Louis. Succeeding Historical Events. St. Louis in Early Days. The Years of Spanish Control. The Attack on St. Louis by Indians. Early Navigation of the Mississippi. Concluding Events Under the Spanish Domination. The Retrocession of Louisiana to France and Its Purchase by the United States. St. Louis Under the Rule of the United States. St. Louis from 1850. History of the Court House. St. Louis and Its Charters.

An Argument to Prove that Saint Louis Will be the Great City of the World.

Biographical Sketches of Eminent Men and Women of St. Louis and Missouri. General W. T. Sherman. Hon. B. Gratz Brown. Hon. Carl Schurz. George P. Plant. Robert E. Carr. Captain John J. Roe. Gen. Francis P. Blair. Mrs. Elizabeth Crittenden. James H. Lucas. James Harrison. Joseph Charless. James L. D. Morrison. Mrs. Anne L. Hunt. Hon. Erastus Wells. Hon. George H. Rea. Louis Vital Bogy. Edwin O. Stanard. Abram Nave. Daniel Read, LL.D. Hon. Charles P. Johnson. Dr. John Sidney Moore. Thomas Allen, LL.D. General William S. Harney. Charles Gibson. Henry Sheffie Geyer. James B. Eads, C. E., LL.D. Trusten Polk. James H. Britton. Henry C. Brockmeyer. Britton A. Hill. Hon. Henry T. Blow. Rt. Rev. P. J. Ryan. Elihu H. Shepard. Joseph L. Stephens. John K. Cummings. Isaac Cook. T. B. Edgar. Elisha Hall Gregory, M. D. Thomas H. Benton. Hon. Albert Todd. General Nathaniel Lyon. Levi Louis Ashbrook. William D. Griswold. Hudson E. Bridge. Barton Able. Hon. Edward Bates. Hon. John Fletcher Darby. Adolphus Meier. Johannes Ludewig. George R. Taylor. Henry John Spaunhorst. Hon. John Hogan. Oliver A. Hart. General John M'Neil. Colonel William S. Pope. Arthur B. Barret. Truman M. Post, D. D. Samuel Gaty. General T. J. Bartholow. James Preston Beck. Colonel A. W. Slayback. Garland Carr Broadhead. Lee R. Shryock. Adam Hammer, M. D. Darwin W. Marmaduke. Henry S. Turner. David P. Rowland. Edward Montgomery, M. D. J. F. Alexander. Judge Nathaniel Holmes. Thomas Carney. William G. Bartle. Matthew Moody. Theodore Laveille. Stilson Hutchins. Dr. H. N. Spencer. Nicholas Schaeffer. R. M. Funkhouser. John Jackson. Auguste Amedee Mellier. Daniel D. Page. John H. Terry. James Andrews. A. J. Conant. Joseph Pulitzer. Joseph R. Meeker. M. M. Pallen, M. D. Capt. Henry J. Moore. D. A. January. Albert Van Syckle. Emil Preetorius. Alexander J. P. Garesche. Emile Thomas. Sunderland G. Sears. George Bain. Sullivan Blood. John C. Swan. Joseph Brown. Josiah G. M'Clellan. John Finn. Thomas R. Allen. Wm. M. M'Pheeters, M. D. Sylvester H. Laflin. A. H. Burlingham, D. D. Thomas Kennard, M. D. Stephen M. Edgell. Charles Henry Peck. Isaiah Forbes, D. S. Frank G. Porter, M. D. Firman A. Rozier. B. F. Edwards, M. D. Webster M. Samuel. Col. George Knapp. William T. Harris. Andrew Maxwell. Edward C. Franklin, M. D. Frederick Hill, M. D. James O. Broadhead. William J. Lemp. Henry Clay Sexton. James A. Monks. Joseph Crawshaw. Roger E. Harding. Isaac Hardin Jones. James H. Brookmire. H. W. Leffingwell. Charles W. Stevens, M. D. L. Ch. Boisliniere, M. D. Dr. Garland Hurt. Meredith Martin, M. D. John R. Lionberger. Henry B. Belt. William F. Switzler. John Magwire. John W. Noble. Hon. Enos Clarke. Dr. Charles H. Hughes. Augustus Krieckhaus.

Sketches of Leading Commercial and Manufacturing Establishments, and Educational Institutions of St. Louis and Missouri. Local and Commercial. The Press of St. Louis. The Missouri Republican. The Globe-Democrat. The St. Louis Times. The St. Louis Dispatch. The Evening Journal. The German Press. The Anzeiger des Westens. The Westliche Post The Amerika. The Public Parks of St. Louis. Introduction. Lafayette Park. O'Fallon Park. Tower Grove Park. Lindell Park. Forest Park. Andrew M'Kinley. The Cotton Trade of St. Louis. Washington University. St. Louis University. Charles E. Ware Co., Publishers and Printers, N. E. Corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets. Dodd, Brown Co. R. Sellew Co., Metals, and Manufacturer's Supplies. Pettes Leathe. The Excelsior Manufacturing Company. Collier White Lead Works. The Packing Business. Eugene Jaccard Co. Brookmire Ranken. Shryock Rowland. A. F. Shapleigh Co. St. Louis Type Foundry. The Harrison Wire Company. Western Brewery. — William J. Lemp. Gray, Baker Co. Newcomb Brothers. The St. Louis Life Insurance Company. The St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. The Western Engraving Company. Lightning Rods — Cole Brothers. Becktold Co., Book Binders.

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