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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.

Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New London, Connecticut, on June 3, 1780.

The most powerful tribal group in the early history of Missouri was referred to as the Wah-Zha-Zhe, which actually derived from a name for one of its moiety divisions, “The Water People.” The tribal group as a whole origina