| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall. Edited with an introduction by Eric Sandweiss. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xviii + 251 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $32.50.)

In 1819, Henry Shaw, a young English immigrant, settled in St. Louis. Over the course of the next seven decades, Shaw became a wealthy merchant and an influential philanthropist, and thus helped transform St. Louis from a rough-hewn trading post into a major urban center. Perhaps most importantly, Shaw spearheaded the creation of the Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the treasures of the city and of the nation. To commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Missouri Botanical Garden gathered leading historians of nineteenth-century St. Louis and hosted a lecture series on the city during Shaw's lifetime. St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw, a collection of nine essays, grew out of this symposium.

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