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Family stories and tales of the place where she grew up propelled Lucile Morris Upton into a lifelong interest in regional history.

The life of Mathias Splitlog is a classic story of a man who went from rags to riches. The son of a French father and a Wyandotte mother, Splitlog came to the area that is now Kansas City in July 1843 as a penniless twenty-one-year-old.

The House of Lords was a three-story brick building in Joplin that housed a saloon and restaurant, gaming rooms, and brothel.

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 western lands included in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. After early expeditions led b

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