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…
A group of German-Swiss immigrants landed in Philadelphia in 1710 and settled in southeast…
Daniel Boone is most commonly known as a hunter, trapper, and frontier settler, but he also…
Daniel Morgan Boone was born on December 23, 1769, the seventh child of …
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2,…
A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…