Although Alexander Buckner served in Missouri’s 1820 Constitutional Convention, the state…
William C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in…
Joseph Charless, the first printer in St. Louis and father of journalism west of the…
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…
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis …
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also…
Henry Dodge served his nation in a long and prosperous life on the nineteenth-century…