Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Opening the Ozarks -- Introduction -- 1 The Steg Genevieve District -- Part I The Environment of Settlement -- 2 "A Country Thus Rich by Nature" -- Part II Regulating Settlement -- 3 French and Spanish Periods to 1795 -- 4 Spanish Period, 1796 - 1804 -- 5 American Period, 1804 - 1818 -- 6 American Period, 1818 - 1830 -- Part III Building Communities -- 7 Settlement Forms -- 8 The French Villages -- 9 A Traditional French Village in the Hills -- 10 The Mining Country -- 11 Valley Settlements in the Hills -- 12 Private Settlement Colony -- 13 An Exclusive American Community -- 14 Perry County -- Part IV Organizing Space -- 15 "Connecting Tissues" -- 16 The Ste. Genevieve District as a Settlement Frontier -- Appendix A Spanish Governors- General of Louisiana -- Appendix B Lieutenant Governors of Upper Louisiana during the Spanish Period ( in St. Louis) -- Appendix C U. S. Government Of u cials Involved in the Land- Con u rmation Process in Missouri -- Bibliography -- Index.