Beyond the Frontier: A History of St. Louis to 1821

A History of St. Louis #1

by Frederick A. Hodes

Readers are taken on a tour of this unique Missouri town founded in the 1740s. The work includes the latest scientific and historic evidence of the building dates of French colonial structures. An appendix contains a description of St. Genevieve nicknames by Lorraine Stange. The reprint of this classic work was released in early 1998.

666 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2004

About the author

Frederick A. Hodes, Ph.D., has been a resident of the City of St. Louis since the age of two and his family has been in the city since 1840. Hodes began researching his multi-volume saga of the Mound City after receiving his doctorate in history from Saint Louis University in 1973. He is retired from the Defense Mapping Agency (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency), where he worked as a cartographer for thirty-three years.

Hodes is a former Republican committeeman in the City of St. Louis and served on the Stakeholder Assembly for the city's Home Rule efforts in the early 2000's. In 2010, Hodes received the St. Louis County Historical Society's William Barnaby Faherty Award for his contributions to local history. He is a very active parishioner at St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church. He is married, the father of two, and grandfather of seven.