By Bessie J. Selleck

This book provides a historical background, early records, the first settler families, the first marriage licenses, growth and development, and much more information on Douglas County, Missouri. It once belonged to the French, later it belonged to Spain, and then again was a French territory. In 1803 that changed again with the Louisiana Purchase, it officially became part of the United States.

(307p., Illus, 1952)

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