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![Cardinal Baseball Player George [Whitey] Kurowski with young fans](/sites/default/files/styles/mt_portrait_image/public/2019-12/sports-P0030-0819.jpg?itok=Bgswfx69)
![The Ben Bolt Theatre. [Courtesy of Danny Knouse]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Ben-Bolt-Theatre.jpg?h=095c6e76&itok=T7GdoqrP "The Ben Bolt Theatre. [Courtesy of Danny Knouse]")
![French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly’s rendering of members of an Osage traveling party in Europe, including Big Soldier (at right). [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, object # S/NPG.2011.5]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Big-Soldier.jpg?h=1c605087&itok=wA3lgaib "French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly’s rendering of members of an Osage traveling party in Europe, including Big Soldier (at right). [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, object # S/NPG.2011.5]")
![Frederic L. Billon. [Billon, Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821 (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1888), frontispiece]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Frederic-Billon.jpg?h=1d76b3d3&itok=qGgVrliQ "Frederic L. Billon. [Billon, Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821 (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1888), frontispiece]")
![Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Phoebe-Apperson-Hearst.jpg?h=975d5026&itok=wM_IRaio "Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]")
![Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Edward-Hempstead.jpg?h=87222da7&itok=TH1Ofvjz "Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]")
![Mo-Hon-Go (Sacred Sun), an Osage woman, and her child. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Image Collection, 021180]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Osage-woman-and-child.jpg?h=bb1e889f&itok=tw539Inl "Mo-Hon-Go (Sacred Sun), an Osage woman, and her child. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Image Collection, 021180]")
![Henry Clemens Overstolz. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (New York: Southern History Co., 1899)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_carousel/public/2020-07/Henry-Clemens-Overstolz.jpg?h=dbdf3bf8&itok=jx1HrYM4 "Henry Clemens Overstolz. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (New York: Southern History Co., 1899)]")