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…
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…
At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, Charles Gratiot’s outspoken support for the incoming…
John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
Controversy swirled around Upper Louisiana’s third lieutenant governor in life and in death…