"Spirit of St. Louis (train) The Spirit of St. Louis was a named passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors Penn Central and Amtrak between New York and St. Louis, Missouri. The Pennsylvania introduced the ""Spirit of St. Louis"" on June 15, 1927, replacing the ""New Yorker"" (eastbound) and ""St. Louisian"" (westbound); that September its schedule was 24 hr 50 min each way. The name honored the airplane ""Spirit of St. Louis"", flown the month before by Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. The ""Spirit of St. Louis"" remained in service through the inception of Amtrak, by"
"Spirits of St. Louis The Spirits of St. Louis were one of two teams still in existence at the end of the American Basketball Association (ABA) that did not survive the ABA–NBA merger. They were a member of the ABA in its last two seasons, 1974–75 and 1975–76, while playing their home games at the St. Louis Arena. The Spirits (who took their name from the Atlantic Ocean-crossing plane flown by Charles Lindbergh) were the third incarnation of a franchise that began as the Houston Mavericks and later the Carolina Cougars. However, only a few players from the 1973–74 Cougars"
"the Spirit of St. Louis in test flights from Curtiss Field as an ""instrument expert"" on May 13, 1927 for 10 minutes and May 15, 1927 for 15 minutes. Lindbergh's record breaking flight was on May 20–21, 1927. Brice's son was Frank Goldsborough (1910-1930), who was a record-setting aviator who also died in a crash. In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named a number of lakes in the northwest of the province to honour aviators who had perished during 1927, mainly in attempting oceanic flights. These include Goldsborough Lake (), Grayson Lake () and Omdahl Lake () which are all"
"the St. Louis Cardinals in 1900. In 1902, a team moved to St. Louis from Milwaukee and adopted the name St. Louis Browns, although they had no relation to the previous Browns or Brown Stockings. From 1902 until the 1950s, St. Louis was home to two Major League teams. Notable residents in the field of literature included poets Sara Teasdale and T. S. Eliot, as well as playwright Tennessee Williams. Beginning in the 1850s, St. Louis hosted annual agricultural and mechanical fairs at Fairground Park to connect with regional manufacturers and growers. By the 1880s, the connection to agriculture had"
"Auguste Chouteau René Auguste Chouteau, Jr. (September 7, 1749 or September 26, 1750 in New Orleans, French Louisiana – February 24, 1829 in St. Louis, Missouri), also known as Auguste Chouteau, was the founder of St. Louis, Missouri, a successful fur trader and a politician. He and his partner had a monopoly for many years of fur trade with the large Osage tribe on the Missouri River. In addition, he had numerous business interests in St. Louis and was well-connected with the various rulers: French, Spanish and American. On September 20, 1748, Marie-Thérèse Bourgeois married René Auguste Chouteau, who had"
"that time extending to Kansas City, Missouri and also having a branch from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., via York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. It finally disappeared from the timetable in July 1971. It was replaced by the ""National Limited"". Spirit of St. Louis (train) The Spirit of St. Louis was a named passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors Penn Central and Amtrak between New York and St. Louis, Missouri. The Pennsylvania introduced the ""Spirit of St. Louis"" on June 15, 1927, replacing the ""New Yorker"" (eastbound) and ""St. Louisian"" (westbound); that September its schedule was 24"
"The Spirit of St. Louis (book) The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the ""Spirit of St. Louis"", a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). The book was published on September 14, 1953, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. The book covers a period of time between September 1926 and May 1927, and is divided into two sections: ""The Craft"" and ""New York to Paris"". In the first section, ""The Craft"" (pp. 3–178), Lindbergh describes the latter days of"
"the statue of him in Forest Park, ""The Apotheosis of St. Louis"". The spelling Saint Louis usually refers to the person, while St. Louis refers to the city. The Fleur-de-lis is on the flag of St. Louis City and is used extensively throughout the region on the logos of various charities and non-profits. The Gateway Arch is the strongest symbol of St. Louis, but was built itself as memorial to the already present concept of the city as the ""Gateway to the West"". St. Louis is where Lewis and Clark launched the Voyage of Discovery. It was the starting point"
"Apotheosis of St. Louis Apotheosis of St. Louis is a statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, located in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park. Part of the iconography of St. Louis, the statue was the principal symbol of the city between its erection in 1906 and the construction of the Gateway Arch in the mid-1960s. The bronze statue that stands in Forest Park today was donated to Forest Park by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company after the 1904 World's Fair. It is a replica of a plaster statue that stood"
"his honor. He is also the namesake of Laclede County, Missouri, Laclede, Missouri, the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and the Pierre Laclede Elementary School in St. Louis. Laclede is also recognized with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Pierre Laclède Pierre Laclède Liguest or Pierre Laclède (22 November 1729 – 20 June 1778) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764, in what was then Spanish Upper Louisiana, in present-day Missouri. Laclède was born on 22 November 1729 in Bedous,"
"Spirit of St. Louis The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat, high wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20 – 21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. Lindbergh took off in the ""Spirit"" from Roosevelt Airfield, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours, 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France, a distance of approximately 3,600 miles (5,800 km). One of the best-known aircraft in the world, the ""Spirit"""
"St. Louis businesses to many parts of the emerging economy. As US Indian agent, Chouteau negotiated the Osage Treaty of 1808 on behalf of the United States government, by which the Osage agreed to sell large portions of their lands in present-day Missouri and Arkansas in exchange for Federal annuities. Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was the son of Marie-Therese Bourgeois Chouteau and Pierre de Laclède de Liguest, the latter originally of Bedous in far southwestern France. Pierre was born in New Orleans, then under the authority of New France. He had three younger sisters. Jean-Pierre Chouteau married Pélagie"
"for fur trading companies along the Missouri River until the 1820s. When Manuel Lisa returned to St. Louis from his first expedition to the upper Missouri River in August 1808, he reported to merchants there about the potential of the region for fur trading. On February 24, 1809, Lisa and other prominent fur traders from the St. Louis area formed an association company; its members included Benjamin Wilkinson (nephew of Louisiana Territorial Governor James Wilkinson), Jean Pierre Chouteau (son of St. Louis co-founder René Auguste Chouteau), Auguste Pierre Chouteau (son of Jean Pierre Chouteau), Reuben Lewis (brother of Meriwether Lewis),"
"St. Louis, Missouri, in conjunction with Missouri Pacific Railroad. A second named passenger train, ""The Hustler"", was added to provide overnight service between Shreveport and New Orleans, beginning on July 2, 1932. The Harvey Couch interests began purchasing stock of the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) in 1937. After gaining control of the KCS in 1939, a decision was made to merge the two properties. Kansas City Southern was the surviving corporation, with the Louisiana & Arkansas as a KCS subsidiary, but the KCS president and the controlling stockholders were all from the L&A. This merger created ""single line"" railroad"
"of St. Louis"", originally run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and later inherited by Penn Central. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also ran a train connecting New York and Washington with St. Louis. It was their train, known as the ""National Limited"", that had the name that Amtrak would eventually use. With Amtrak's birth in May 1971, they ran the ""Spirit of St. Louis"", extending it to Kansas City. It soon lost the ""Spirit"" moniker, being replaced with the ""National Limited"". On paper, the route should have been a financial success. Not only did it serve a myriad of population centers"
"downtown St. Louis. The majority of the overall Mardi Gras festivities have corporate sponsorship, primarily from Anheuser-Busch and Southern Comfort. In 2006, this led to an investigation by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control into the legality of Mardi Gras Inc.'s sponsorship deals. In 2010, Tulsa began holding an annual Mardi Gras parade through its downtown Blue Dome District. In 2010, a group of Louisiana expatriates and friends founded the Mysti Krewe of Nimbus Mysti Krewe of Nimbus to bring Mardi Gras and Louisiana culture to the Pacific Northwest"
"of St. Louis"" on his record-breaking transatlantic flight of 1927. Hawks renamed his B-1 ""Spirit of San Diego"" and flew to Washington with his wife to greet the triumphant Lindbergh. In the ensuing glare of publicity, Hawks was hired by the Ryan Aircraft company to be its official representative. With the public idolizing Lindbergh, Hawks toured the country, selling rides in the aircraft ""like Lindy flew."" His ""Spirit"" was actually painted gold, but looked the part to the public. Another reason for the success of the Brougham was its performance at the 1927 National Air Races in Spokane, Washington where"
"In 1809 he founded the Saint Louis Missouri Fur Company with his son Auguste Pierre Chouteau and other prominent men of St. Louis, most of whom were of French-Creole descent, born in North America. Having lived with the Osage for many years and learned their language, Jean Pierre Chouteau traded with them and made his home at present-day Salina, Oklahoma, in the western part of their territory. The Choctaw chief Pushmataha, based in Mississippi, made his early reputation in battles against the Osage tribe in the area of southern Arkansas and their borderlands. In the early 19th century, some Cherokee,"
"Spirit of St. Louis in 1928 and a Ford Tri-motor in 1931. In 1938, a group of men organized the Drums Lions Club. In 1958, Susan (Drum) Walters, great grand daughter of George Sr., was elected justice of the peace for the Sugarloaf Valley, serving the community until her death in 1973. She was the oldest resident at age 97. From 1811 to 1973 (162 years) the Drum family held office as justices. In 1962, the Conyngham National Bank opened a branch in Drums. Later, the Conyngham Bank merged with the First Eastern Bank of Wilkes-Barre. Under the capable direction"
"French born resident of St. Louis, presented himself as a representative of the American Government and a friend of two people who were going to take a group of Osage to Washington, D.C. However, he instead took them to Europe and used them for his own pleasure and profit. Delauney gathered the 12 people and loaded their furs onto a raft and set off for St. Louis. Halfway there their raft crashed and all of their furs were lost. Half of the Osage decided to return to the village at this point, while the other half including Sacred Sun continued"
"has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. The city is commonly identified with the tall Gateway Arch in the city's downtown. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture, which built numerous temple and residential earthwork mounds on both sides of the Mississippi River. Their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 to 1500. Due to numerous major earthworks within St. Louis boundaries, the city was nicknamed as the ""Mound City"". These mounds"
"of regional business news. St. Louis was served by an online newspaper, the ""St. Louis Beacon"", but that publication merged with KWMU in 2013. Many books and movies have been written about St. Louis. A few of the most influential and prominent films are ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" and ""American flyers"", and novels include ""The Killing Dance"", ""Meet Me in St. Louis"", ""The Runaway Soul"" (novel), ""The Rose of Old St. Louis"", and ""Circus of the Damned"". As St. Louis was a prime location for immigrants to move to, much of the early social work depicting immigrant life was"
"Chris von der Ahe Christian Friedrich (or Frederick) Wilhelm von der Ahe (; October 7, 1851 – June 5, 1913) was a German entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals. Von der Ahe arrived in New York City but quickly moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a clerk in a grocery store. Later, he bought out the store owner and expanded business by establishing a saloon in the back of the store. Von der Ahe noticed that a number of his patrons"
"venue for ""Fate Marable and His Jazz Maniacs"" and the venue for Louis Armstrong's first engagement with Streckfus Steamers. In 1919, Streckfus Steamers executed the second conversion from their Diamond Jo fleet, the packet ""Quincy"". The company developed different ships for different markets, and the ""J.S. Deluxe"" catered to wealthy people from St. Louis. The company hired white musicians to perform on this steamer. ""J.S. Deluxe"" continued to serve the upscale market in the St. Louis area until the ""President"" took over in 1934. The ""Capitol"" was born from the old sternwheeler, the ""Dubuque"". It did not require as much"
"for a secret elite society, whose public demonstrations would coincide with the annual fair. From Irish poet Thomas Moore, the Slaybacks borrowed the name of the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan; they also incorporated features from the Mystick Krewe of Comus of New Orleans. In their version, the Prophet was a world traveler who had made St. Louis his home base. The first parade, attracting over 50,000 spectators, and grand ball were staged that year on October 8, 1878. The fair was also intended to re-assert the social hierarchy which had been challenged by the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Historian"
"Louis newspapers lauded Von der Ahe for resurrecting a ""corpse"" and transforming it ""into the liveliest being imaginable."" St. Louis Brown Stockings The St. Louis Brown Stockings were a professional baseball club based in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1875 to 1877, which competed on the cusps of the existences of two all-professional leagues –– the National Association (NA) and the National League (NL). The team is the forerunner of, but not directly connected with, the current St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team. After the conclusion of the 1877 season, a game-fixing scandal involving two players the Brown Stockings had"
"among others – shared their memories of the franchise. Notes: Spirits of St. Louis The Spirits of St. Louis were one of two teams still in existence at the end of the American Basketball Association (ABA) that did not survive the ABA–NBA merger. They were a member of the ABA in its last two seasons, 1974–75 and 1975–76, while playing their home games at the St. Louis Arena. The Spirits (who took their name from the Atlantic Ocean-crossing plane flown by Charles Lindbergh) were the third incarnation of a franchise that began as the Houston Mavericks and later the Carolina"
"is titled ""Postcard From Mound City"". The 2007 Master Plan for the Gateway Mall calls for a mound to be constructed at the mall's terminus to afford a better view. St. Louis is at the confluence of the Illinois, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. The city was founded by Pierre Laclede as a fur trading post because he believed the location had great potential in shipping. St. Louis has long been known for its barge traffic and steamboats. The writer Mark Twain is an icon of St. Louis in his own right, and wrote prolifically about the steamboats along the river."
"the Spirits of St. Louis. On May 19, 1976, the Spirits of St. Louis announced that they planned to relocate to Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Utah Rockies for the 1976–77 season, and that negotiations were underway for the team to play at the Salt Palace. Meanwhile, discussions that eventually resulted in the ABA-NBA merger were nearing completion. As part of the franchise shift, Spirits owners Daniel and Ozzie Silna proposed that they would sell the team to a group in Utah, and then purchase the Kentucky Colonels with the intention of moving the franchise to Buffalo, New York,"
"St. Louis, Missouri. These groups, each twelve feet high and eight feet wide, were carved from one block weighing nearly nine tons. The four heroic statues in St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York, have been classed as the final step in his break from conventionality. These figures represent Isaac Jogues, the slain apostle of the Mohawk Native Americans; St. Rose of Lima, the first canonized saint of the New World; St. Turibius; and Kateri Tekakwitha, the Mohawk woman and first Native American convert to Catholicism. In these statues the artist ventured on a new path in religious sculpture, portraying typical"
"Pierre Laclède Pierre Laclède Liguest or Pierre Laclède (22 November 1729 – 20 June 1778) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764, in what was then Spanish Upper Louisiana, in present-day Missouri. Laclède was born on 22 November 1729 in Bedous, Béarn, France. He was one of the younger sons in his family, with parents being office-holders, authors, and scholars of some prominence. His father, and later inherited by his brother, held the position of ""avocat au parlement"" de Navarre, a traditional region including Béarn, located in Pau."
"team. After an attempt to purchase the Detroit Pistons fell short, the Silnas purchased the ABA's Carolina Cougars franchise with the expectation of moving it into the NBA with the impending merger of the two leagues. The Silna brothers moved the Cougars to St. Louis, Missouri because it was then the largest city in the United States without a professional basketball team, and they thought this would make their team more likely to join the NBA. In 1974, the Cougars, roster and all, were overhauled and became the ABA's Spirits of St. Louis from 1974 through 1976. The 1974–75 Spirits"
"The Syracuse Spirit was a member of the American Lacrosse League, a short lived professional lacrosse league in 1988, based in Syracuse, New York. The Spirit played their home games at the Griffin Field in Liverpool, New York. The general manager of the Spirit was Tom Scofield and the head coach was Jim Booth. The Spirit had a 4–1 record when the league folded. Syracuse had a team in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) called the Syracuse Smash for three seasons from 1998 to 2000. They moved to Ottawa in 2001 and became the Ottawa Rebel The Syracuse Salty Dogs"