ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

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History happens. All stories, especially the difficult ones, need to be heard. Award winning author, a public historian, professional genealogist, and International speaker. Member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

Category: Native Americans

  • The Treaty of Peace and Friendship

    The Treaty of Peace and Friendship

    Eleven chiefs of the Big Osage, one Arkansas Osage chief, eleven Little Osage chiefs and one chief of the Missourias attached to the Little Osage signed the peace treaty on September 12, 1815. On September 15, 2015, the Commemoration of the Peace and Friendship Treaties took place at the same location as the original signing,…

  • Boone & Sibley at Fort Osage

    Boone & Sibley at Fort Osage

    William Clark and Nathan Boone’s overland march of mounted dragoons from St. Charles, followed what later became the Boone’s Lick Trail

  • The Osage Nation

    The Osage Nation

    In 1803, the 6,000 strong Osage Nation was the largest, most powerful Native American nation immediately west of the Mississippi River.