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…
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…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
The French Revolution induced many royalists to emigrate to the Louisiana Territory in the…