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…
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…