Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the…
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
Louis Bolduc was born near Quebec City in the village of St. Joachim around 1739 (his…
Daniel Boone is most commonly known as a hunter, trapper, and frontier settler, but he also…
Daniel Morgan Boone was born on December 23, 1769, the seventh child of …
In the early history of St. Louis and its trans-Mississippi hinterlands, Auguste Chouteau…
Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was a pioneer settler in St. Louis and the territory…
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also…
Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that…