AND MODES OF LIFE, IN THE WESTERN STATES BY JAMES HALL. VOLUME I. CINCINNATI: HUBBARD AND EDMANDS. 1834. DM Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1834. BY HUBBARD AND EDMANDS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Ohio, N. S. Johnson, Printer. Introduction, CONTENTS. French Settlements-discovery of the Mississippi valley-mission- French Settlements-St. Louis-French grants-Spanish grants Early Civil and Political Institutions-counties organized-dis- of the Spanish, |