Fred Fausz is a history professor and former dean of the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, specializing in the ethnohistory of Indian-European relations in colonial America. He received an AB degree in European history from Thomas More College in his native Kentucky; earned his PhD in early American history from the College of William and Mary, with Phi Beta Kappa honors; and was a fellow of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Three of his many publications have won best of the year? awards from historical societies in Missouri, Virginia and Maryland, and in May 2007, Time magazine cited his research on early Jamestown. Committed to sharing historical knowledge with the general public, he was a consultant on Kevin Costner's eight-hour Indian documentary, 500 Nations, and has exhibited his extensive collection of fur trade artifacts in major museums and at other sites in seven midwestern states. In 2006, he was the lead organizer and program chair for the Ninth North American Fur Trade Conference in St. Louis and received the 2007 Missouri Governor's Award in the Humanities for Enhancing Community Heritage.
Combining vivid storytelling with meticulous research, Fausz helps
readers see St. Louis in an entirely new way, as a multicultural
city. He brings to life its fascinating French, Osage Indian, and
other peoples, as well as its natural and urban landscape and the
central importance of international commerce. In doing so, he shows
us a future that could have been, a frontier based on economically
fruitful cooperation rather than violence and expulsion. --Kathleen
DuVal, author of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the
Heart of the Continent Correcting numerous errors that have
burrowed into the historical record, Founding St. Louis digs deep
to offer the most impressive history yet written of the city's
French founders, of the old world they came from and the new one
they created. An absolutely essential book for historians of St.
Louis, of colonial Louisiana, of the Early Atlantic World, and of
American history. --Stephen Aron, author of American Confluence:
The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State The details
will fascinate, and every reader will learn something new, even
those well-versed in the city's history. The story of the founding
of St. Louis now has the solid foundation it has deserved. --Jay
Gitlin, author of The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French
Traders, and American Expansion
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