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…
Regis (Registre) Loisel was born near Montreal, Canada, in about 1773, and at an early age…
Pierre Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit priest in the Illinois Country, was among a group of French…
Manuel Pérez, Spanish lieutenant governor in St. Louis from 1787 to 1792, was born in…
Pedro Joseph Piernas, the first Spanish lieutenant governor in St. Louis, occupied that…
More than half a century before the founding of St. Louis, French priests established a…