John Francis McDermott
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John Francis McDermott was a noted author and professor of American History at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville (SIU-E). During his tenure there, he taught thousands of students at the new university campus during its ‘start-up’ phase in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. He was instrumental in documenting many regional historical studies, among them the Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Founding of St. Louis in 1764 (he himself was a descendant of Auguste Chouteau, founder of the City of St. Louis).
Before Mark Twain : | Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley / | Journey through a part of the United States of North America in the years 1844 to 1846, | Seth Eastman’s Mississippi ;