| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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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. xvii + 316 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, index. $39.95.)

Carl Ekberg offers an informative, lively history of a family in one of colonial America's most misunderstood regions. Although the study of early America now includes non-English colonies to a greater extent than Ekberg indicates in his preface, he correctly attributes our ignorance of French and Spanish North America to the long-lasting dominance of studies of New England and Virginia. François Vallé solidly demonstrates that Illinois Country was a dynamic colonial region inhabited by energetic, versatile settlers. By examining the world that shaped Vallé's success and benefited from his influence, this book challenges the enduring misconception that France and Spain lightly occupied western regions of North America.

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