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Stony Dell, fourteen miles west of Rolla, was one of the central Missouri Ozarks’ premier tourist destinations on Route 66 during the mid-twentieth century.

The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820 was a military and scientific excursion in which the United States hoped to begin establishing control over the vast western lands included in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. After early expeditions

At the intersection of Route 66 and Highway 5 in Lebanon, Nelson’s Dream Village was one of the finest examples of early twentieth-century roadside entrepreneurialism in Missouri. Its founder, Arthur T.

The O’Joe Club in Noel, Missouri, was one of the first commercial resorts in the Ozarks. Although it was not founded by native Ozarkers, the group’s clubhouse became a magnet for tourists and sportsmen at the turn of the twentieth century.

Often credited as being the “Father of Southeast Missouri,” Louis Houck was a lawyer, journalist, entrepreneur, regent, philanthropist, and historian who brought railroading to the region, thus opening southeast Missouri to industrialization

Indian Springs was a resort town in McDonald County founded in 1881 during the nineteenth-century medicinal springs boom.

Of all the ethnic groups to settle in Missouri, none embraced the press more vigorously than the Germans.