Excerpt from The City Government of Saint Louis, Vol. 4
On the fifteenth of February, 1764, a small party of Frenchmen acting under the orders of Pierre Laclede Liguest, who had previously fixed upon this spot for a settlement, cleared a bit of Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The City Government of Saint Louis, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) (Marshall S. Snow)