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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks to Fieldstead & Co. for the grant that enabled me to complete the research necessary for this book. Lawrie Dean provided so much information through her work ofcalendering and translation ofthe Kaskaskia manuscripts. My gratitude to Pierre Le Beau without whose assistance in editing this never could have been completed . Many people have given advice, information, and encouragement over the years: Judge Morris S. Arnold; C. Ray Brassieur; Winston DeVille; Carl Ekberg; Fr. William Flaherty and Nancy Merz of the Midwest Jesuit Archives, St. Louis University; Ruth Gilster; Dennis Hermann; Glen Holt, Director Emeritus, St. Louis Public Libraries ; John Hoover, Director, Mercantile Library, University ofMissouri - St. Louis; from the staff of the Illinois State Archives: John Daly, Charles Cali, Wayne Temple, Cody Wright, Ray Hammes; Fr. Michael Maher; Collette Manac'h Royalle; Ruth Menard; Terry Norris; Irving Peithmann; Anton Pregaldin; in the Rudolph County Clerk's Office: Charles Bemasek, Nell Wright, and Joyce Hermes; and all the villagers ofPrairie du Rocher. xvzz ...

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