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February 15 th 1764: St. Louis is founded. French fur traders Pierre Laclede and Auguste Choteau were commissioned to build a trading post near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers by a New Orleans merchant. There, they built a fur trade with Native tribes living along the Missouri River. 1879: Women are allowed before the Court....

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