the State Historical Society of Missouri
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…
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a…
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…