the State Historical Society of Missouri
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…
![Charles de Hault Delassus. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N36696]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Charles%20de%20Hault%20Delassus.jpg?h=9a83fe1d&itok=iH6qI-8F "Charles de Hault Delassus. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N36696]")
Following the Louisiana Purchase, Charles de Hault Delassus, Upper Louisiana’s last Spanish lieutenant…
![Jeffrey Deroine (second from right) with Ioways. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Robert Wright Photograph Collection, P0011]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Jeffrey_Deroine.jpg?h=05ab4653&itok=58Uzeivu "Jeffrey Deroine (second from right) with Ioways. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Robert Wright Photograph Collection, P0011]")
Jeffrey Deroine (pronounced Der-oh-NAY) defied many of the limitations placed on enslaved people in early…
![This 1778 map of the Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins depicts the region as it appeared during Israel Dodge’s lifetime. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-06/1.%20Israel%20Dodge.jpg?h=4e0e6038&itok=J2Zc_h4S "This 1778 map of the Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins depicts the region as it appeared during Israel Dodge’s lifetime. [Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Image 5045002]")
Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the turn of the…
![Louis William DuBourg. [Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, DC]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Louis_William_Dubourg.jpg?h=8feb261c&itok=WJ_eksKM "Louis William DuBourg. [Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, DC]")
William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early republican period of…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
![A detail from the Finiels map of the Mississippi River showing the area around St. Louis. The original is in the Archives de la Marine, Chateau, Vincennes, France. [Courtesy of Carl J. Ekberg]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Nicolas%20de%20Finiels.jpg?h=198c041c&itok=zTGl8JJc "A detail from the Finiels map of the Mississippi River showing the area around St. Louis. The original is in the Archives de la Marine, Chateau, Vincennes, France. [Courtesy of Carl J. Ekberg]")
Nicolas de Finiels, an expatriate French engineer who served the Spanish monarchy during…
![Paul Follenius. [State Historical Society of Missouri, William G. Bek Photograph Collection, P0586]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-04/1.%20Paul%20Follenius.jpg?h=9fce5577&itok=_Vv-bUxU "Paul Follenius. [State Historical Society of Missouri, William G. Bek Photograph Collection, P0586]")
