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| | Kaskaskia under the French Regime | Belting (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | “[Belting] lavished attention on her first loves—American Indians and the French colonial settlers in Illinois—and for decades was the unquestioned expert in these fields.” |
 | | Using a readable, journalistic style, Belting brings to life the prairie terrain, the Kaskaskia mission, early architecture, building methods and materials, the beginnings of government, domestic tools and utensils, commerce, and the social customs of the pioneer. |
 | | Belting draws on and translates from eighteenth century French the Kaskaskia Manuscripts, in which French notaries recorded parish marriage contracts, property transactions (including slave sales), and estate inventories. |
| www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/f03_titles/belting_kaskaskia.htm (460 words) |
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