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Don Benito Vasquez in Early Saint Louis
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| Title | Don Benito Vasquez in Early Saint Louis |
| Abstract | Biographical article about Don Benito Vasquez (1738-1810), an early Spanish settler of Saint Louis, Missouri. Native of Spain emigrating to Saint Louis in 1869 as a soldier under Lieutenant Pedro Piernas following the Louisiana Territory's ceding to Spain from France. Description of his fur trading career from 1772 to about 1800, traveling down the Mississippi River and up the Missouri River to the later site of Kansas City and beyond, and dealing with Manuel Lisa, Governor Carondelet, and Jean Baptiste Trudeau. |
| Notes | Page 301: "In 1794 he [Vasquez] was granted the trade of the Kansas Indians and spent the winter with that tribe. In the spring of 1795, when he was returning to St. Louis, Benito and his companion were waylaid by a band of 160 Iowas who plundered their boats, carried off two of the engages, beat them and left them at the mouth of the Kansas River, naked and without food or guns." |
| Author | Janet Lecompte
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| Date | July//1970 |
| Source | Missouri Historical Society Bulletin |
| Location | Periodical |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 4 |
| Page | 285-305 |
| Local Subject | Vasquez, Benito
Explorers
Spanish
Fur Trade
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 121022 |
| CONTENTdm number | 18190 |
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