![Anne Lucas Hunt. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1N34182]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Anne_Lucas_Hunt.jpg?itok=sJBL2Y_R "Anne Lucas Hunt. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1N34182]")
We can guess the character of Anne Lucas Hunt by the good she did during her life and by the legacies she left at her death; altogether she gave more than $1 million in money and real estate to various charitable institutions.
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the American fur business, was a partner in both the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company and the firm of Ashley and Henry.
The St. Louis Junto played a key role in shaping the politics of early nineteenth-century Missouri.
Nicholas G. DiPucchio is a graduate student in history at Saint Louis University.
![St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-St_Louis_Browns.jpg?itok=dbarYEKj "St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]")
The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League from 1902 until 1953.
Japheth Knopp is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Missouri specializing in the cultural history of baseball.
![Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Joseph_Robidoux.jpg?itok=COV1tKu8 "Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]")
Joseph Robidoux III, the eldest son of a large family, was born in St. Louis on August 10, 1783, to Joseph and Catherine Rollette Robidoux.
Tanis C. Thorne is retired from the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine.
William S. Worley is a history instructor at Metropolitan Community College–Blue River.
Larry E. Wood is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of Missouri and its region. A retired English teacher, he lives in Joplin, Missouri.
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