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Walter A. Schroeder

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Walter A. Schroeder is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Missouri.

John S. Sappington. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Thomas Easterly Daguerrotypes Collection, Photographs and Prints Collection, N17356]

John S. Sappington (1776–1856)

Wed, 06/22/2022 - 23:54 By brennerj

            John S.

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Peter Rindisbacher, portrait by George Markham. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 1985-101-0001]

Peter Rindisbacher (1806–1834)

Wed, 06/22/2022 - 22:43 By brennerj

Peter Rindisbacher’s paintings and watercolors are among the earliest images of the indigenous peoples and the frontier in western Canada and the United States.

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Sidney Rigdon. [Courtesy of the Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]

Sidney Rigdon (1793–1876)

Wed, 06/22/2022 - 18:58 By brennerj

Born on February 17, 1793, on a farm near St. Clair Township, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Sidney Rigdon was the fourth child of William and Nancy Rigdon.

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Jack Oakie. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, JWS25751]

Jack Oakie (1903–1978)

Wed, 06/22/2022 - 18:27 By brennerj

Jack Oakie was long considered one of the screen’s most notorious scene-stealers. He had a unique brand of comedy and was the master of the double and triple take.

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Ivory Perry addressing a crowd at a civil rights demonstration in front of St. Louis police headquarters on September 16, 1965. Photograph by Buel White, © St. Louis Post-Dispatch. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Collection, N22497]

Ivory Perry (1930–1989)

Tue, 06/21/2022 - 16:46 By brennerj

A community organizer, civil rights campaigner, housing specialist, and antipoverty activist, Ivory Perry spent many years channeling the needs and aspirations of the African American community in St.

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George Lipsitz

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George Lipsitz is professor emeritus of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]

Pierre Gabriel Marest (1662–1714)

Fri, 04/15/2022 - 22:36 By brennerj

Pierre Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit priest in the Illinois Country, was among a group of French and Native Americans that formed the earliest known missionary settlement in what would become Missouri.

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John Waide

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Alexander Majors. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Kansas City Research Center]

Alexander Majors (1814–1900)

Thu, 04/14/2022 - 17:09 By brennerj

Those familiar with the Pony Express recognize Russell, Majors, and Waddell as the entrepreneurs behind the famous, if short-lived, venture.

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