St. Louis, Missouri, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

Referenced In

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

"Montag, get in touch with me in St. Louis, I’m leaving on the five a.m. bus this morning, to see a retired printer there."

"Pamela Blair and her husband are the owners and founders of EyeSeeMe African American Children’s Bookstore in St. Louis, Missouri."

"as far up the Missouri as the white settlements extend, an intercourse will probably be found to exist between them and the Spanish posts of St. Louis opposite Cahokia"

"“…his journal, now published, will give the history of his journey to and from the Pacific ocean, until his return to St. Louis on the twenty-third of September, 1806.”"

"…At one o’clock, we met two rafts loaded, the one with furs, the other with the tallow of buffaloe; they were from the Sioux nation, and on their way to St. Louis; but we were fortunate enough to engage one of them, a Mr. Durion, who had lived with that nation more than twenty years…"

"One mile above, on the same side of the river, is a small factory, where a merchant of St. Louis traded with the Ottoes and Pawnees two years ago."

"‘...the Frenchmen who are to return to St. Louis are building a periogue for the purpose.’ The mention of St. Louis identifies this well‐known city."

"…when we proposed to him to purchase a small quantity of tobacco, to be paid for in St. Louis, he very readily furnished every man of the party with as much as he could use during the rest of the voyage…"

"Tuesday, 23, descended to the Mississippi, and round to St. Louis, where we arrived at twelve o’clock, and having fired a salute went on shore and received the heartiest and most hospitable welcome from the whole village."

"On my return this fall, I met on the Missouri an American merchant by the name of Robert McClellan ... and on my way to St. Louis, I met in my way another merchant."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"then Missouri and St. Louis and finally on Monday night bashing across Illinois and Indiana and into old snowy Ohio"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“I been in St Louis.”"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Her mother was in St. Louis, and if Scott was right about the credit cards Maureen wouldn’t be able to buy plane tickets to get there."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"He’d dropped out of Harvard and run far from his St. Louis home, his millionaire daddy, and his fur‐cloaked mother."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"…his ultimate destination being Jay Bellamy’s family in St. Louis, where he would be given a golden retriever and the nickname Danny Boy…"

The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

"I sat down again and I felt automatically for a cigarette and then stopped. St. Louis in August had nothing on that place."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"That like Paris has the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis the Arch, and New York an insanely huge income disparity, Dickens would have segregated schools."

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"the redheaded girl from St Louis who always asked about the Filipinos."