Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
During the first half of the eighteenth century, marriages between Native Americans and…
Following the Louisiana Purchase, Charles de Hault Delassus, Upper Louisiana’s last Spanish…
Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the…
Nicolas de Finiels, an expatriate French engineer who served the Spanish monarchy during…
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…