You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER IX MANUEL LISA ON THE MISSOURI SLOPE Just a little while after the close of the Revolutionary War, a Spanish boy, named Manuel Lisa, came up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and stopped at St. Louis, which then belonged to Spain. At this time Manuel was about eighteen years old. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ We would not have liked their food, either. For breakfast they might have hominy, but without butter, sugar, or cream. Dinner perhaps consisted of fat pork and biscuits, though often the biscuits got wet and could not be used. For supper they might have a bowl of mush with a pound of tallow melted in it. Sometimes, however, they killed a deer or a buffalo, and then they had fine steaks roasted on a stick before the fire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/