William S. Woods. [A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, 1896]
William Stone Woods (1840–1917)

William Stone Woods was born on November 1, 1840, the son of James Harris and Martha Jane…

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souvenir program from the 1944 World Series
1944 World Series

The 1944 World Series was the first played entirely west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis,…

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Prison photographs of Cleo Wright. [Courtesy of Missouri State Archives]
Cleo Wright (1916–1942)

Born in Jefferson County, Arkansas, on June 16, 1916, Ricelor Cleodas Watson was the son of…

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Josephine Silone Yates. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-50313]
Josephine Silone Yates (1859–1912)

Josephine Silone was born in Mattituck, New York, in 1859, the youngest daughter of…

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Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820

The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820 was a military and scientific excursion in which the United States…

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The Yocum Brothers

The Yocums, a prolific clan in the interior Ozarks for two centuries, are inextricably…

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Cole Younger, circa 1866. [State Historical Society of Missouri, B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024263]
Cole Younger (1844–1916)

Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger left his family’s Missouri farm in 1862, at age seventeen, to join William…

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