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The Rose of Old St. Louis

by Mary Dillon

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1904
Pages
318
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Mary Dillon's 1904 novel sends a young Philadelphian down the Ohio and the Mississippi to St. Louis, a French-speaking village about to pass into American hands. He falls at once for Pelagie, the girl the town calls its rose, and the pursuit carries him from the river settlements to Paris, where Napoleon, Talleyrand, Livingston, Marbois, and Monroe are bargaining over the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and the Clark brothers pass through the story beside the invented characters. Dillon was careful about her history. Her foreword grants that the book is not history, but claims the Congressional debate and the negotiators' words verbatim from the record, and she built old St. Louis out of Scharf, Billon, and Brackenridge. It reads best as a period piece, a picture of how Americans of 1904 imagined the purchase that made them continental.

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Mary Dillon

Mary Dillon, who also published as Mary C. Johnson Dillon, was an American novelist born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her birth year is not recorded in the standard catalogs; she died in St. Louis in 1923. She wrote popular historical and regional fiction in the early 1900s, including In Old Bellaire, Comrades, and The Leader. The Rose of Old St.

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First published
1904
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
318
Language
English
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