the State Historical Society of Missouri
Mary Ellen Rowe is a retired professor of history at the University of Central Missouri.
![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/large/public/2020-07/Big-Soldier.jpg?itok=HPI9QCbX "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]")
Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the Missouri River, in…
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![Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38643]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-07/1.%20Benjamin%20Louis%20Eulalie%20de%20Bonneville.jpg?itok=P0bD6Uhp "Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38643]")
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a…
![1. George Catlin, An Osage Indian Lancing a Buffalo, 1846–1848. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1985.66.567]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-06/1.-clermont.jpg?itok=n9WRv1n7 "1. George Catlin, An Osage Indian Lancing a Buffalo, 1846–1848. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1985.66.567]")
![Painting titled Cler-mónt, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, 1834. The portrait is of Clermont II's son, also known as Clermont; there is no known image of Clermont II. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, SAAM-1985.66.29_1]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-03/1.%20Clermont%20II.jpg?itok=T_NR3dsb "Painting titled Cler-mónt, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, 1834. The portrait is of Clermont II's son, also known as Clermont; there is no known image of Clermont II. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, SAAM-1985.66.29_1]")
![Josiah Gregg. [Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 4316.5964]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-04/1.%20Josiah%20Gregg.jpg?itok=HeczzMrD "Josiah Gregg. [Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 4316.5964]")
From his father, Wheelwright Harmon Gregg, Josiah Gregg inherited a roving spirit that…