What's Going On: The History of St. Louis
"Near purged of Kindred during the 1930s, the Great Plains have only rebuilt their unliving population during the last three decades. Kansas City and St. Louis, in particular, have heavy vampiric populations. The large number of Kindred in Kansas City is at least understandable, given the wholesale slaughter of cattle that is one of the city's main industries. St. Louis, on the other hand, is more of a puzzle, particular since it's Camarilla contingent is heavily tilted towards Brujah and Nosferatu."
The paragraph above represents the entirety of what White Wolf has made canon for the city of St. Louis, as best as the Storytellers can determine. (There was a book trilogy called Masquerade of the Red Death that had some more details about St. Louis in it, but White Wolf, ultimately realizing that those books involved two Antediluvians -- one Cappadocian, one from a new Bloodline altogether -- fighting and killing members of the city in an effort to eventually destroy the world itself, declared them non-canonical, and we are not referencing them at all in our history of the city.) As such, most of the early history of the city focuses on real-world historical events, with as few references to Cainites as possible.
As always, what's written in the histories here should not be taken as pure, absolute fact. No two people tell the same story and, as the classic aphorism has it, "history is written by the winners." What's represented here is common knowledge, but it is not the whole and complete truth. We'll let you figure out if what's written here is "good enough" for you, or if you want to look into things further.... (Oh, and this doesn't apply to the "Real World Overview of St. Louis" section of this history -- that is all factual information, drawn from a few encyclopedias and official St. Louis websites, so that is "absolute" truth, okay?)
It is hoped that the players, as they generate characters to play in St. Louis, will help the Storytellers fill in parts of the city's history. So, read, enjoy, and hopefully the history will give you ideas -- which is what it's supposed to do, really.