The Journal
Fort Carondelet and Osage
Amour Propre The Autumn 2001 JOURNAL of the Jackson County Historical
Society features Fort Carondelet
and Osage Amour Propre by
Charles Hoffhaus. The article
discusses how early French traders and trappers “worked the system” to their
advantage in what the author calls a “military and commercial ménage a
trios.” This article offers a profile of the Osage, a Native-American
civilization who once occupied what is today portions of Missouri and Kansas,
in the midst of early contact with Europeans of French and Spanish descent.
The Trading House at Fort
Osage. Fort Osage became the
first Jackson County listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Hoffhaus is president of the Chouteau Society, a
not-for-profit educational corporation whose purpose is the commemoration of
the French heritage of Kansas City.
Among other services, the Chouteau Society offers an insightful
brochure titled “A Tour of Old French Kansas City,” directing travelers to
eleven vantage points where signage has been placed to interpret French
Kansas City in the early 1700s to mid 1800s. Selected Bibliography: Lowie, Robert H. Indians
of the Plains. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982). Foley, William E. and David C. Rice. The First Chouteaus (University of
Illinois Press, 2000). Mathews, John Joseph. The Osages: Children of Middle Waters. Mathews, John Joseph. Wah'Kon-Tah; The Osage and the White Man's Road. Parkman, Francis. France
and England in North America, edited by David Levin. (Library of America,
1983). Rollings, Willard H. The Osage: An
Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony of the Prairie-Plains. (Columbia, Mo:
University of Missouri Press, 1992). Wolferman, Kristie C. The Osage in Missouri. Missouri Heritage Readers Series, Rebecca B.
Schroeder, Editor. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1997). Here are some World Wide Web links that help to
complement what Hoffhaus has offered in the print version of the JOURNAL. To
order this JOURNAL edition, subscribe or join JCHS click here. Real
Kansas City Series Presentation on the region’s French Heritage Bereniece
and Francois Chouteau Biography Cher
Oncle, Cher Papa: The Letters of Francois and Berenice Chouteau Fort
Osage and the Osage Indians University
of Arkansas Native American History Brad
Finch’s Kansas City History Kansas City
Government’s History Kansas City’s
Star’s Millennium Series Western
Historical Manuscript’s Kansas City History A Bit of
Lewis and Clark-Era History American
Memory at the Library of Congress Authentic
Cajun and Creole French Music and Culture Osage Valley in
Vernon County, Missouri Past
and Present of Green County, Missouri |
