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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.

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

Isaac McCoy was born on June 13, 1784, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. At the age of six, he traveled with his family to the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, where his father, William, served as an itinerant preacher.

Wilson Price Hunt was born to a prosperous merchant family in Asbury, New Jersey, on March 20, 1783. As a young man he journeyed west.

Emma R. Knell, a businesswoman and politician, was born in Moline, Illinois, on October 21, 1877, and moved with her family to southwest Missouri in the early 1880s.

Rupert Hughes, a versatile popular writer, was born in Lancaster, Missouri, on January 31, 1872.

Hancock Lee Jackson was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on May 12, 1796. He married Ursula Oldham in the spring of 1821, and the following fall the couple moved to Missouri.

William Lewis Sublette was born at Stanford, Kentucky, on September 21, 1799. The family moved to St.