the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Nathan%20Boone.jpg?h=4253ce28&itok=IjWRbAYP "Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]")
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2,…
![Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Marie%20Brackenridge.jpg?h=a4270221&itok=PGRUmb1N "Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]")
A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…
![Robert Campbell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Robert%20Campbell.jpg?h=85a0f5f3&itok=g-85bsQq "Robert Campbell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38642]")
Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic…
![Auguste Chouteau. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1869-001-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Auguste%20Chouteau.jpg?h=3727f4e6&itok=pVycVU5w "Auguste Chouteau. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1869-001-0001]")
In the early history of St. Louis and its trans-Mississippi hinterlands, Auguste Chouteau…
![Jean Pierre Chouteau Sr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N22207]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-02/1.%20Jean%20Pierre%20Chouteau.jpg?h=3c8849c0&itok=Tmt5XONW "Jean Pierre Chouteau Sr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N22207]")
Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was a pioneer settler in St. Louis and the territory that was to…
![Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Marie-Therese-Bourgeois-Chouteau.jpg?h=fa71d962&itok=Z7OIpIoD "Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]")
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
![Pierre Chouteau Jr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1922-024-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-11/1.-pierre-chouteau-jr.jpg?h=134f337b&itok=N51TRSGp "Pierre Chouteau Jr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1922-024-0001]")
Pierre Chouteau Jr., scion of the powerful early St. Louis family and the most influential…
![Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Francisco%20Cruzat.jpg?h=c5468509&itok=axq6uBu4 "Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]")
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-…
![A detail from Thomas Hutchins’s 1778 map of the Illinois Country showing Ste. Genevieve, Kaskaskia, and Fort de Chartres. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Marie-Joseph%20Deguire.jpg?itok=qusVsjPP "A detail from Thomas Hutchins’s 1778 map of the Illinois Country showing Ste. Genevieve, Kaskaskia, and Fort de Chartres. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]")
During the first half of the eighteenth century, marriages between Native Americans and…