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Silas C. Turnbo collected stories from Ozarkers in the upper White River country of Arkansas and Missouri from as early as the 1860s continuing into the early twentieth century.

Charlton H. Tandy, an outspoken leader of the nineteenth-century Black civil rights movement, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 16, 1836.

Denton Jacques Snider, born on January 9, 1841, in Mount Gilead, Ohio, was a literary critic and essayist, as well as the self-appointed historian of the St. Louis movement in philosophy.

Carl Sauer probably had a more profound effect on American geographic thought than any other American geographer of the twentieth century.

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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.

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.

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.

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.