On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome…
Thomas Allen was among the most prominent and powerful individuals who led St. Louis in its transition from…
James Pierson Beckwith, better known as Jim Beckwourth following the publication of…
Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the…
Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in…
An early pioneer-farming expert and author, Morris Birkbeck exerted an enormous influence…
Among the early artists to explore the trans-Mississippi River frontier, Karl Bodmer’s stay…
Henry Boernstein, a journalist and dramatist, was born Georg Christian Heinrich Börnstein…
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
Born in Ste. Genevieve on April 9, 1818, as a descendant of early French…