Zenas Leonard, a fur trapper best known as the author of Adventures of a Mountain Man…
Susan Shelby Magoffin was born on July 30, 1827, at Arcasia, her father’s estate near…
Those familiar with the Pony Express recognize Russell, Majors, and Waddell as the…
Isaac McCoy was born on June 13, 1784, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. At the age of six,…
Born on February 17, 1793, on a farm near St. Clair Township, in Allegheny County,…
Joseph Robidoux III, the eldest son of a large family, was born in St. Louis on August 10,…
Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor…
William Bradford Waddell typified the mid-nineteenth-century entrepreneur who shaped the…