The Hunters' Feast: Or Conversations Around the Camp-Fire (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Hunters' Feast: Or Conversations Around the Camp-FireOn the western bank of the Mississippi, twelve miles below the embouchure of the Missouri, stands the large town of St. Louis, poetically known as the 'Mound City.' Although there are many other large towns throughout the Mississippi Valley, St. Louis is the metropolis of the 'far west' - of that semi-civilised, ever-changing belt of territory known as the 'Frontier.'St. Louis is one of those American cities in the history of which there is something of peculiar interest. It is one of the oldest of North-American settlements, having been a French trading port at an early period.Though not so successful as their rivals the English, there was a degree of picturesqueness about French colonisation, that, in the present day, strongly claims the attention of the American poet, novelist, and historian.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.