the State Historical Society of Missouri
Rachel Franklin Weekley is a historian with the National Park Service.
Articles Authored
![1. This watercolor portrait of Henry Dodge was painted by George Catlin during the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition of 1834. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1962-192-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-03/1.%20Henry%20Dodge.jpg?itok=nZRNC_37 "1. This watercolor portrait of Henry Dodge was painted by George Catlin during the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition of 1834. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1962-192-0001]")
Henry Dodge served his nation in a long and prosperous life on the nineteenth-century…
![This 1778 map of the Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins depicts the region as it appeared during Israel Dodge’s lifetime. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-06/1.%20Israel%20Dodge.jpg?itok=SHnGEpYM "This 1778 map of the Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins depicts the region as it appeared during Israel Dodge’s lifetime. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]")
Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the…
![This depiction of colonial Ste. Genevieve by artist Oscar Berninghaus is among the murals in the Missouri State Capitol. [State Historical Society of Missouri, color transparency in Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-017298-1]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-03/1.%20Augustin%20Charles%20Fremon%20de%20Lauriere_0.jpg?itok=7ft_ITxi "This depiction of colonial Ste. Genevieve by artist Oscar Berninghaus is among the murals in the Missouri State Capitol. [State Historical Society of Missouri, color transparency in Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-017298-1]")
The French Revolution induced many royalists to emigrate to the Louisiana Territory in the…
![Alexander Majors. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Kansas City Research Center]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-04/1.%20Alexander%20Majors.jpg?itok=-MnMIAGb "Alexander Majors. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Kansas City Research Center]")
Those familiar with the Pony Express recognize Russell, Majors, and Waddell as the…
Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in…