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Gordon “Wild Bill” Elliott was one of the film industry’s top moneymakers in westerns during the 1940s and 1950s and was voted one of the ten best “Money Making Stars” in the Motion Picture Herald poll from 1942 to

Singer-actor Cliff Edwards was born in Hannibal, Missouri, on June 14, 1895, and is best remembered for his voice portrayal of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film Pinocchio, in which he sang the unfo

During the first half of the eighteenth century, marriages between Native Americans and Europeans were common throughout French Louisiana, including the Illinois Country.

Nicolas de Finiels, an expatriate French engineer who served the Spanish monarchy during the late colonial era, remains little known.

Louis Bolduc was born near Quebec City in the village of St. Joachim around 1739 (his baptismal record is not extant), son to Zacharie and Jeanne Meunier Bolduc. Young Louis fled the St.

            Otto Widmann published the Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri, the first comprehensive book on the state’s birds,

Following the Louisiana Purchase, Charles de Hault Delassus, Upper Louisiana’s last Spanish lieutenant governor, had the unenviable task of dismantling the Spanish regime and transferring authority to the incoming US officials.

Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that office twice, was born in Navarre, Spain, on March 10, 1739.

Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the turn of the nineteenth century.