Attorney Jo Ann (Brown) Trogdon lives in Columbia, Missouri. She is the author of The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015), St. Charles Borromeo: 200 Years of Faith, and history articles in publications such as Arizona Highways and We Proceeded On.
Contributions
Six years before signing on with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, George Drouillard took part in a sensitive international mission for the United States Army. This mission was probably just one of Drouillard’s many services to the United States in the last decade of the eighteenth century.
The St. Charles Boatmen
by Jo Ann Brown-TrogdonThe earliest baptism, marriage, and burial registers of St. Charles Borromeo parish help explain the identities and family connections of several of the french boatman from St. Charles.