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            Otto Widmann published the Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri, the first comprehensive book on the state’s birds,

Following the Louisiana Purchase, Charles de Hault Delassus, Upper Louisiana’s last Spanish lieutenant governor, had the unenviable task of dismantling the Spanish regime and transferring authority to the incoming US officials.

Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that office twice, was born in Navarre, Spain, on March 10, 1739.

Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on May 23, 1820, James Buchanan Eads became an engineer of great renown, remarkable for the variety of his accomplishments.

Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social scientists.

 “Once the most important and popular play place of the Tri-State district,” Lakeside Park in Jasper County, Missouri, opened to the public in 1895.

Sebastien Louis Meurin served as the parish priest in Ste. Genevieve from 1764 through 1768 and conducted the first Catholic services in the settlement of St. Louis from 1766 to 1769.