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Philadelphia on horseback to purchase merchandise, and 

 these trading expeditions were uniformly successful. 

 His trade extended over the whole of Upper Louisiana, 

 and he lived to see the great growth of Missouri as a 

 sovereign state, along with the development of the fabu- 

 lous mineral wealth of the district. 9 



Rozier's old store at Ste. Genevieve, for long a land- 

 mark in that community and considered a pretentious 

 building in its day, was undoubtedly built after the 

 date of Audubon's visit. The front was devoted to the 

 service of customers and a large shed or stock room 

 was placed at the rear, while the family lived in the 

 main section, which was entered by a door not shown in 

 our illustration. 10 When this building was demolished 

 to make way for modern changes, the wooden pins used 

 in joining the frame were treasured by many as souve- 

 nirs of pioneer times. 



Ferdinand Rozier, who outlived Audubon by thirteen 

 years, died at Ste. Genevieve on January 1, 1864, at the 

 age of eighty-seven years. If he were one of those 

 who thought that Audubon was wasting his time in his 

 ardent zeal for natural history, it should not surprise 

 us, for their ideals were in conflict, and the naturalist's 

 way of working was certainly not conducive to success 

 in trade. 



"For this characterization of Ferdinand Rozier I am indebted mainly 

 to an account by his son, Firman A. Rozier, at one time mayor of 

 Ste. Genevieve and member of the State Legislature; see his History 

 of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley (Bibl. No. 202) (St. 

 Louis, 1890). 



10 For a photograph of the old Rozier store at Ste. Genevieve, as well 

 as for the likeness of Rozier, made in 1862, when he was in his eighty- 

 fifth year, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Ruthven Deane, who 

 received them from a son of Ferdinand, Felix Rozier, in November, 1905, 

 when the latter had attained his eighty-third year. 



