When 14-year-old Auguste Chouteau landed on the western shores of the Mississippi River in 1764, he brought with him a party of 30 men commissioned by his stepfather Pierre Laclede to clear the land for a new French trading post. They called the village St. Louis....

When 14-year-old Auguste Chouteau landed on the western shores of the Mississippi River in 1764, he brought with him a party of 30 men commissioned by his stepfather Pierre Laclede to clear the land for a new French trading post. They called the village St. Louis....