Online Resources

Sources for Early Missouri History

• THE MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW indexes, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO, VoIume 1, 1906-1931; Volume 2, 1931-1951; Volume 3, 1951-1976; 1976 to date indexes in July issues.
  

• HISTORY OF MISSOURI FROM THE EARLIEST EXPLORATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS UNTIL THE ADMISSION OF THE STATE INTO THE UNION, by Louis Houck, Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1908, 3 volume set, indexed.
  

• U.S. REFERENCE-IANA: (1481-1899), a concise guide to over 4000 books and articles for researching art, books, boardsides, ephemera, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, etc., by Thomas Truxtun Moebs, Williamsburg, VA: Moebs Publishing Company, 1989, 826+pp.
  

• TRAVELS IN AMERICA: FROM THE VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRAVEL ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, 1955-1980, by Garold L. Cole, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1984, 291pp.
  

• AMERICAN DIARIES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED AMERICAN DIARIES AND JOURNALS, by Laura Arksey, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed, 2 volumes (1492-1844; 1845-1980) Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, Book Tower, c1987, indexed.
  

• A HISTORY OF PIONEER FAMILIES OF MISSOURI, with numerous sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in Missouri, by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, St. Louis, MO: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1876, 1935, 569pp, indexed.
  

• THE SPANISH REGIME IN MISSOURI, by Louis Houck, 2 volumes, Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1909, indexed.
  

• CREOLES OF ST. LOUIS, by Paul Beckwith, St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Company, 1893, 169pp, indexed.
  

• ANNALS OF ST. LOUIS IN ITS EARLY DAYS UNDER THE FRENCH AND SPANISH DOMINATIONS , 1764-1804, by Frederic L. Billon, NY: Arno Press and New York Times, 1886, 1971, 507pp.
  

• ANNALS OF ST. LOUIS IN ITS TERRITORIAL DAYS FROM 1804-1821, by Frederic L. Billon, NY: Arno Press and New York Times, 1888, 1971, 463pp.
  

• EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, 1748-1846, a series of annotated reprin ts of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early Am erican Settlement, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 32 volumes, Cleveland, OH: The Arthur H. Clark Company, c1907, indexed (volumes 31 & 32).
  

• THE FIRST CHOUTEAUS, RIVER BARONS OF EARLY ST. LOUIS, by William E. Foley and C. David Rice, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1983, 241pp, indexed.
  

• THE GENESIS OF MISSOURI: FROM WILDERNESS OUTPOST TO STATEHOOD, by William E. Foley, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989, 367pp, indexed.
  

• AN ACCOUNT OF UPPER LOUISIANA, by Nicolas de Finiels, edited by Carl J. Ekberg and William E. Foley, translated by Carl J. Ekberg, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989, 153 pp, indexed.
  

• A HISTORY OF MISSOURI, 1673-1820, by William E. Foley, The Missouri Sesquicentennial edition, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1971, 229pp, indexed.
  

• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MISSOURI GEOGRAPHY: A GUIDE TO WRITTEN MATERIAL ON PLACES AND REGIONS OF MISSOURI, by Walter A. Schroeder, Dept. of Geography, Agriculture Extension Publications, Columbia: University of Missouri, 1977, 259pp.
  

• THE TERRITORIAL PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES, by Clarence Edwin Carter, volumes 13 through 17, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1948, indexed.
  

• THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS: TRAVELS AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES IN NEW FRANCE, 1610-1791, 73 volumes, Cleveland, OH: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1901, indexed (volumes 71 & 72).
  

• THE BEGINNING OF THE WEST, Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854, by Louise Barry, Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, c1972, 1296pp, indexed.

• AN INDEX TO THE STATUTE LAWS OF MISSOURI, comprising all the general and special acts contained in the authorized editions of the laws from the inauguration of its Territorial Government to the close of the XXIV General Assembly in 1868, compiled by Jam es S. Garland, St. Louis: Saint Louis Book and News Company, 1868, 421pp.

• GLIMPSES OF THE PAST (10 volumes); BULLETIN (36 volumes); COLLECTIONS (6 volumes); and GATEWAY HERITAGE (quarterly since 1980), all published by the Missouri Historical Society, Jefferson Memorial Bldg., Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63112.

• BEFORE LEWIS AND CLARK: DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF MISSOURI, 1785-1804, ed. by A.P. Nasatir, 2 volumes (org. 1952): University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, c1990, reprint.