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St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View Beyond the Garden Wall

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St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View Beyond the Garden Wall - Sandweiss, Eric (Editor)
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Assembled in honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of philanthropist and entrepreneur Henry Shaw (1800-1889), St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw is a collection of nine provocative essays that together provide a definitive account of the life of St. Louis during the 1800s, a thriving period during which the city acquired the status of the largest metropolis in the American West. Shaw, who established the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859, was just one of the many immigrants who left their mark on this ...

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St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View Beyond the Garden Wall 2003, University of Missouri Press

ISBN-13: 9780826214393

Hardcover