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John Mason Peck, a pioneer, Baptist missionary, noted preacher, author, and journalist on the early Missouri and Illinois frontiers, produced important writings that promoted settlement and settled institutions in the Missi

Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri, his “St. Louis Blues” (1914) secured a place for him in the state’s musical history.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most important and controversial politicians in Missouri in the antebellum era.

Civil war raged along the Kansas-Missouri border for nearly a decade in the mid-nineteenth century. The struggle over the fate of slavery in Kansas Territory erupted into partisan bloodshed in 1856.

William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis in leading an overland expedition to the Pacific from 1804 to 1806, looms large in the history of America’s westward expansion.

Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in Franklin County, where he remained a resident for most of his life.

John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the Missouri River in the 1820s, was born in Virginia’s Dan River region, not far from the North Carolina border, in 1776.