the State Historical Society of Missouri
John Bradbury is a Center for Missouri Studies fellow at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
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![Samuel Ryan Curtis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James C. Joplin Photograph Collection, P0850-20239]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-03/1.%20Samuel%20Ryan%20Curtis.jpg?itok=lfiUDnzY "Samuel Ryan Curtis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James C. Joplin Photograph Collection, P0850-20239]")
Samuel Ryan Curtis figured largely in Missouri’s Civil War history from August 1861 through…
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…