A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…
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…
Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that…
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…