Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]

Joseph Robidoux III, the eldest son of a large family, was born in St. Louis on August 10,…

Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]

Ferdinand Rozier was an early resident of historic Ste. Genevieve and…

Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]

The Sac and Fox were not native to Missouri, but were significant in Missouri’s territorial and early…

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Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in…

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…

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The St. Louis Junto played a key role in shaping the politics of early nineteenth-…

Henry von Phul. [J. Thomas Scharf, History of Saint Louis City and County, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts & Co., 1883)]

Henry von Phul was born in Philadelphia in 1784, the son of Johann Wilhelm (later William)…