1876-1881.
The St. Louis Spirit was established about 1876, by Steele & Burt, as a weekly secret society paper. In about a year Steele retired, and Burt continued the publication until October, 1881, when the paper was consolidated with the Western Livestock Journal, which he had previously published.
(From the History of St. Louis City and County by John Thomas Scharf, 1883).
