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Henry Marvin Belden, a pioneer in the study of Missouri balladry and song, was born October 3, 1865, in Wilton, Connecticut, the second of five sons in an old New England family of modest means.

George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples and landscapes of the Great Plains.

Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was a pioneer settler in St. Louis and the territory that was to become Missouri.

Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up the Missouri River, across the continental divide to the Pacific Ocean, and back to St. Louis.

In the early history of St. Louis and its trans-­Mississippi hinterlands, Auguste Chouteau occupied a place of singular importance.

More than half a century before the founding of St. Louis, French priests established a mission on the west bank of the Mississippi River at the mouth of the River Des Peres (River of the Fathers).

Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s Station, near present-day Athens, Kentucky.

Born in Independence, Missouri, on February 13, 1885, Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, who as the wife of the thirty-third president of the United States was accustomed to sign her name as Bess W.

Born in Jefferson County, Arkansas, on June 16, 1916, Ricelor Cleodas Watson was the son of farmer Albert Leak and schoolteacher Alonzo Woolfolk Humphrey Watson.