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Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was a pioneer settler in St. Louis and the territory that was to become Missouri.

Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up the Missouri River, across the continental divide to the Pacific Ocean, and back to St. Louis.

In the early history of St. Louis and its trans-­Mississippi hinterlands, Auguste Chouteau occupied a place of singular importance.

More than half a century before the founding of St. Louis, French priests established a mission on the west bank of the Mississippi River at the mouth of the River Des Peres (River of the Fathers).

Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s Station, near present-day Athens, Kentucky.

Born in Independence, Missouri, on February 13, 1885, Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, who as the wife of the thirty-third president of the United States was accustomed to sign her name as Bess W.

Born in Jefferson County, Arkansas, on June 16, 1916, Ricelor Cleodas Watson was the son of farmer Albert Leak and schoolteacher Alonzo Woolfolk Humphrey Watson.

William McKendree was the first American-born bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the first bishop to have close ties with Missouri Methodism.

The Yocums, a prolific clan in the interior Ozarks for two centuries, are inextricably bound by history and folklore with significant events in the White River country.

Josephine Silone was born in Mattituck, New York, in 1859, the youngest daughter of Alexander and Parthenia Reeve Silone.