| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xx, 316 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1418-5.)

In the middle decades of the eighteenth century, Francophone colonists from Canada, France, and New Orleans helped establish and populate numerous agricultural centers and trading posts in the territory known variously as Upper Louisiana or the Illinois Country. Moving into Native American lands, they brought Africans as well, in the process creating diverse colonial communities. Among the ambitious newcomers was an illiterate Canadian, François Vallé, who journeyed south to the Mississippi River valley in the 1740s to seek his fortune and who succeeded wildly, becoming the richest man in the region well before his death in the 1780s. In François Vallé and His World, Carl J. Ekberg simultaneously traces the rise to wealth and power of one man and the growth of a colonial outpost and economy. Part of the Missouri Biography series, under the editorship of William E. Foley, this volume is a welcome addition to scholarship on the other empires that lay claim to North America during the eighteenth century.

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