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Mary Ellen Rowe is a retired professor of history at the University of Central Missouri.
Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the…
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also…
From his father, Wheelwright Harmon Gregg, Josiah Gregg inherited a roving spirit that…
Christian Hawken, a respected gunsmith of Hagerstown, Maryland, taught his six sons and…
Wilson Price Hunt was born to a prosperous merchant family in Asbury, New Jersey, on March…