Excerpt from Commercial and Architectural St. Louis You will go and disembark at the place where we marked the trees; you will commence to clear the place and build a large shed, to contain the provisions and tools, and some little cabins to lodge the men. This was said by M. Laclede Liguest to M. Chouteau - the instructions were carried out and the first house was built on the site of about where Barnum's Hotel now stands. Thus began the great city we have to-day. The first blow of the axe occurred on the 15th of February, 1764, and the party con sisted of a hand full of men; on June loth, 1888, the city of St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.