246 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
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.® 
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.*? 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. Genevitve and member of the State Legislature; see his History 
of the Early Settlement of the Mississippi Valley (Bibl. No. 202) (St. 
Louis, 1890). 
For a photograph of the old Rozier store at Ste. Geneviéve, 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. 
