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The American Revolutionary War in the West Museum Exhibit:
A General Guide
Paperback, $10.00
This volume provides an overview of the American Revolutionary War in the West Museum Exhibit now open at the St. Charles County Heritage Museum, including color pictures, short biographies, and concise summaries of the war in the western theater.
James Colbert and his Chickasaw Legacy
Paperback, $25.00
James Colbert provided ongoing intelligence to the British in the early years of the war. He participated in operations around Mobile after its capture, the attacks on Fort Jefferson in 1780, the siege of Pensacola in 1781, the capture of Spanish and American boats on the Mississippi River in 1782, the attack on Arkansas Post in 1783 and in peace negotiations with the Americans after the war. At times he served in an official capacity in the British Southern Indian Department. This paperback volume includes copies and transcriptions of several original documents including the often disputed British commission and places Colbert in his proper place as a major player in the war.
CONTENTS:
“James Colbert and the American Revolutionary War” by STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
“The Colberts and the Chickasaw Nation” by GUY B. BRADEN.
Foreword by Donna Loksi’ Rausch, descendant of James Colbert
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Paperback, $10.00
While the birthplace of Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable remains in dispute, his mark on early American history does not. He initially settled in Peoria in the early 1770s and was married in the Catholic Church in Cahokia in 1788. Du Sable was an able and successful trader with many American and Spanish trading partners. With the commencement of the American Revolutionary War, those relationships would cause him to be arrested by the British in 1779 who confiscated all of his trade good. Du Sable’s most well-known and largest historical achievement is the founding of the City of Chicago. He later sold his merchant business interest at Chicago and ultimately moved to St. Charles, Missouri where he operated a ferry across the Missouri River. He died and was buried in St. Charles in 1818.
Illinois’ First Citizen - Pierre Gibault
Paperback, $20.00
Pierre Gibault was born in Montreal in 1737. He was ordained in 1768 and subsequently ordered to the British Illinois Country, where he settled in Kaskaskia. He became known as the Patriot Priest for his actions during the American Revolutionary War, and was instrumental in securing both the allegiance of the local French to the American cause and acceptance by local merchants of rather worthless Virginia paper money for supplies. He dedicated the first church in St. Louis. He carried a flintlock musket and two pistols with him during his regular travels to Le Pe, Vincennes, Cahokia, St. Louis, Fort St. Joseph and Ste. Geneviève. Just how effective he was is shown in the British correspondence, “Could I catch the priest—Mr. Gibault—who has blown the trumpet of rebellion for the Americans, I should send him down unhurt to Your Excellency, to get the reward for his zeal.”