Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was…
Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…
Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, whose foghorn voice earned him his nickname, was a masterful,…
Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in…
By popular consensus, Tom Bass was one of the most skillful and popular horsemen of his era. At the time of his…
J. Christian Bay was born to Lars and Doris Christiansen Bay on October 12, 1871, in…
Noah Beery Sr., a film actor, was born on a Clay County, Missouri, farm several miles…
Standard reference works list film actor Wallace Beery’s birthplace as Kansas City,…
Pitching immortal Satchel Paige, noted for his tall tales as much as his pitching, claimed that James “Cool Papa”…
Robert Russell Bennett was born on June 15, 1894, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of…