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The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with distinction as military commander of Upper Louisiana in the key period after the French cession of the Louisiana Territory to the United S

An early pioneer-farming expert and author, Morris Birkbeck exerted an enormous influence in publicizing the Illinois and Missouri Territories not only to his planned colony of English families, but also to waves of America

Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 1918, the son of Louis and Ellen Brown Billups. He grew up in an elite African American neighborhood known as the Ville.

The Ben Bolt Theatre was a spectacular building that stood for half a century as a notable landmark in northeast Missouri.

Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the Missouri River, in what is now Saline County.

Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in the production of highly successful works about St. Louis that are still useful for historians.

When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the shoulders of neighbor George Hearst. Then he caught gold fever and left for California.