Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic…
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…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
The French Revolution induced many royalists to emigrate to the Louisiana Territory in the…