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This page features articles and books pertaining to the history of French Missouri and the Old Mines area that are available online in their entirety.  Note that some materials are restricted, usually to use through a university library system.  Many of the articles are available through JSTOR, for which individuals can sign up for an account for limited free access.

Alvord, Clarence W.  Kaskaskia Records.  Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1909.
https://archive.org/details/kaskaskiarecords05alvo

Alvord, Clarence W.; Clarence E. Carter, eds.  The Critical Period, 1763-1765.  Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1915.  https://archive.org/details/criticalperiod1700illirich

Austin, Moses.  “Journal.” American Historical Review 5.3 (April 1900): 523-542. [Preceded by: “A Memorandum of M. Austin’s Journey from the Lead Mines in the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia to the Lead Mines in the Province of Louisiana West of the Mississippi, 1796-1797”]  http://www.jstor.org/stable/i304875

Bannon, John Francis.  “The Spaniards and the Illinois Country 1762-1800.”  Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 69.2 (1976): 110-118.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/40191185

Beaulne, Kent.  “Pawpaw-French Cooking.  Food Ways of Missouri’s Créoles.”  Le Forum (Centre Franco-Américain, University of Maine) 36.3 (été/Summer 2013): 30-34.
https://umaine.edu/francoamerican/wp-content/uploads/sites/314/2013/09/LF_Vol_36_No_3.pdf

Belting, Natalia.  Kaskaskia Under the French Regime.  Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1948. https://archive.org/details/kaskaskiaunderfr00belt

Bradbury, John.  Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811.  Foreword by Donald Jackson.  Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1986.  [See pages 248-254 on mines.] http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-06/travelsininterio00brad/

Brassieur, C. Ray.  “Living French Traditions of the Middle Mississippi Valley.”  Missouri Heritage Fair 1993 Festival Program (1993): 25-28.  PDF FILE.

Brassieur, C. Ray.  “The Duclos-Pashia House: Survival of Creole Building Traditions into the Twentieth Century.”  Material Culture 22.2 (1990): 15-25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29763852

Briggs, Winstanley.  “Le Pays des Illinois.”  William and Mary Quarterly, third series, vol. 47, no. 1 (January 1990): 30-56.  Also Letter to the Editor by Carl Ekberg and response of Briggs to letter in vol. 47, no. 4, p. 610-614.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2938040

Brown, Margaret Kimball.  “La colonisation française de l’Illinois: une réévaluation.”  Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française, vol. 39, no. 4 (1986): 583-591.  http://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/1986/v39/n4/304402ar.pdf

Carrière, J.-M.  “Creole Dialect of Missouri.”  American Speech 14.2 (April 1939), 109-119.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/451217

Carrière, J.-M.  “The Phonology of Missouri French: A Historical Study.”  French Review 14.5 (March 1941), 410-415.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/380369

Carrière, J.-M.  “The Phonology of Missouri French: A Historical Study (continued).”  French Review 14.6 (May 1941), 510-515.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/381703

Diron d’Artaguiette.  “Journal of Diron d’Artaguiette.”  In Travels in the American Colonies.  Ed. Newton D. Mereness.  Trans. Georgia Sanderlin.  New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961: 15-92; Transcript in Library of Congress, from Archives Nationales C13 C2 ff. 18-269. http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-06/travelsinamerica00mere/

Ekberg, Carl J.; Charles R. Smith; William D. Walters, Jr.; Frederick W. Lange.  A Cultural Geographical and Historical Study of the Pine Ford Lake Project Area: Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and St. Francois Counties, Missouri.  Normal: Illinois State University, 1981.  https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a292365.pdf

 “La Guillonée.”  Missouri Heritage Fair 1993, Festival Program: 10-11.  PDF FILE.

Klein, Ada Paris, ed.  “Lead Mining in Pioneer Missouri.”  Missouri Historical Review 43.3 (April 1949): 251-270. 
http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/22158/rec/7

Lippincott, I.  “Industry among the French in the Illinois Country.”  Journal of Political Economy 18.2 (1910): 114-128. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1829776

McDermott, John Francis.  A Glossary of Mississippi Valley French, 1673-1850.  St. Louis : [s.n.], 1941.  Washington University studies. New series, Language and literature; no. 12.  http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-08/glossaryofmissis00mcde/

Miller, W. M.  “Missouri’s ‘Paw-Paw’ French.”  French Review 3.3 (Jan. 1930), 174-178.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/380091

Mills, Elizabeth Shown.  “Parallel Lives: Philippe de La Renaudière and Philippe (de) Renault.  Directors of the Mines, Company of the Indies.”  Natchitoches Genealogist, 22 (April 1998): 3-18.  http://historicpathways.com/download/paralives.pdf

Murphy, Lucy Elderveld.  Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832.  Lincoln: Nebraska, 2000.  http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803202948/

“Old Mines Music: Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt Talks About French Colonial Heritage in the Midwest.”  Archaeological Institute of America, 2004.  www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/stroughmatt.html.

Penn, Dorothy; Marie George Windell, eds.  “The French in the Valley.”  Missouri Historical Review. 

    Part I: 40.1 (Oct. 1945): 90-122
  
    Part II: 40.2 (Jan. 1946): 245-275

    Part III: 40.3 (April 1946): 407-430

    Part IV: 40.4 (July 1946): 562-?

    Part V: 41.1 (Oct. 1946): 77-106

    Part VI: 41.2 (January 1947): 192-215

    Part VII: 41.3 (April 1947): 305-314

    Part VIII: 41.4 (July 1947): 391-405

Renault Land Grant (original French with translation).  In A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875.  American State papers, Senate, 11th Congress, 2nd session.  Public Lands: Vol. 2, p. 163-164. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsplink.html

Rothensteiner, John E. “Earliest History of Mine La Motte.”  Missouri Historical Review 20.2 (January 1926): 199-213. http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/8253/rec/2​

Rothensteiner, John E.  History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.  St. Louis: Blackwell Wielandy, 1928. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1122286.html

Rozier, Firmin A.  Rozier’s History of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley.  St. Louis: G. A. Pierrot and Son, 1890.  https://archive.org/details/roziershistoryof00rozi

Sauer, Carl O.  The Geography of the Ozark Highland of Missouri.  The Geographical Society of Chicago Bulletin, no. 7.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1920.  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/2406346.html

Schaaf, Ida M.  “The First Roads West of the Mississippi.”  Missouri Historical Review 29.2 (January 1935): 92-99.  http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/14057/rec/2 

Schaaf, Ida M.  “The Founding of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.”  Missouri Historical Review 27.2 (January 1933): 145-150.  http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/13204/rec/5

Schoolcraft, Henry R.  A view of the lead mines of Missouri.  New York: Arno Press, 1972.  Reprint of the 1819 edition. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t04x59f56;view=1up;seq=13

Schroeder, Walter A.  “The Enduring French Creole Community Old Mines, Missouri.”  Historical Geography 31 (2003), 43-54.  https://ejournals.unm.edu/index.php/historicalgeography/article/view/2965/2444

Seeger, Cheryl M.  “History of Mining in the Southeast Missouri Lead District…”  Missouri Department of Natural Resources, 2008.  http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5140/pdf/Chapter1.pdf

Suess, Adolph B.  Glimpses of Prairie du Rocher, Its Past and Present, 1722-1942.  Belleville, IL: Buechler Printing Company, 1942.  https://archive.org/details/glimpsesofprairi00sues

Suggs, George G., Jr.  “Child Labor in the Tiff Mines of Washington County, Missouri.”  Missouri Historical Review 87.4 (July 1993): 357-371.  http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/46550/rec/2

Swartzlow, Ruby.  “Early History of Lead Mining in Missouri.” 

    Part I: Missouri Historical Review vol. 28, no. 3 (April 1934): 184-194
 
    Part II: vol. 28, no. 4 (July 1934): 287-295

    Part III: vol. 29, no. 1 (Oct. 1934): 27-34

    Part IV: vol. 29, no. 2 (Jan. 1935): 109-117

    Part V: vol. 29, no. 3 (April 1935): 195-205

Tarr, William Arthur.  The Barite Deposits of Missouri and the Geology of the Barite District.  University of Missouri Studies, Science Series 3, no. 1 (1918).  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1806569.html

Thompson, William.   “Entretien avec Will Thompson par Florina Matu: Au pays des Illinois.”  Zigzag Magazine, 2 janvier 2013.  http://www.zigzag-francophonie.eu/ETATS-UNIS-Au-pays-des-Illinois

Vidal, Cécile.  “Africains et Européens au pays des Illinois durant la période française (1699-1765).” French Colonial History, vol. 3 (2002): 51-68.  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/french_colonial_history/v003/3.1vidal.pdf

Viles, J. “Population and Extent of Settlement in Missouri Before 1804.”  Missouri Historical Review 5.4 (July 1911): 189-213. http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/1062/rec/1​

Violette, E. M.  “Early Settlements in Missouri.”  Missouri Historical Review 1.1 (October 1906): 38-52.  http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mhr/id/6205/rec/12

Wallace, Joseph.  The History of Illinois and Louisiana under French Rule.  Cincinnati, 1893.  http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1986444.html

Winnerman, Jim.  “Missouri French: Preserving Missouri’s Old Mines Dialect.”  Missouri Life (February 2013): 38-43.  Also reprinted in the AATF Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 3 (April 2013): 15-17. 
https://issuu.com/missourilifemagazine/docs/ml0213-upload


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