MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series

Dr. Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Professor of French & Italian

"Tixier's Travels: The French and the Osage after the Louisiana Purchase"

 

In 1840 a young French medical student, amateur artist, and guest of the Chouteau family of St. Louis spent the summer living with the Osage Indians. Victor Tixier wrote vivid descriptions of the Osage Indians in his journal Voyage aux Prairies Osages . Dr. Lazzaro-Weis will discuss her work on the forthcoming scholarly edition of this work. Please join us for this fascinating lecture and discussion.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, October 24, 1:00 p.m.

Ellis Library, 1st Floor Colonnade