I chose to read through the documents from the drive folder, the 1862 and 1879 texts.

When skimming both documents, it seems as if they primarily focus on the agriculture, and description of the land, as well as the resources that St. Louis County had at the time. The 1879 text is very short, so I think most of the popular words will come from the 1862 text, and that it will be mostly based on the manufacturing, agriculture and business side of the city. On skimming, I see very little about the culture, so I don’t see much about that, and the text is very formal. I’m anticipating that there will be fewer positive or negative connotations associated with different terms throughout the text, simply due to the specific talk about the city and what it makes.

When I uploaded them into Voyant, I absolutely was correct that there would be a lot talking about the manufacturing and business side of the city. There was more information about schools, university, and other infrastructure outside of the supply chain than I expected, which does say something about the start of building a public infrastructure.

I was surprised by the number of positive words collated with different terms. When looking at “louis” as a term, it was often paired with terms like “charitable” and “magnificant.” Looking at other terms it is more positive as well, though there are negative connotations with the terms “slaves” and “limits.” I really thought that there would be much more neutral language surrounding the type of text being reviewed.