the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Phog Allen. [University of Kansas, University Archives Photo Collection, ku-uaphotos:33979]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Allen-in-1929.jpg?h=835c59e0&itok=nrKUSAfj "Phog Allen. [University of Kansas, University Archives Photo Collection, ku-uaphotos:33979]")
Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, whose foghorn voice earned him his nickname, was a masterful,…
![Henry J. Childers (left) and his children Bonnie, Bernice, Elbert, and Raymond help a customer at the family’s shop in Clementine, Missouri. [Phelps County Historical Society, Elbert I Childers Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-08/1.-basketville.jpg?h=052689e3&itok=c2tC-xgM "Henry J. Childers (left) and his children Bonnie, Bernice, Elbert, and Raymond help a customer at the family’s shop in Clementine, Missouri. [Phelps County Historical Society, Elbert I Childers Collection]")
Route 66 was fully paved across Missouri by 1931. Its completion provided Missourians with new opportunities…
By popular consensus, Tom Bass was one of the most skillful and popular horsemen of his era. At the time of his…
![J. Christian Bay. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Jens Christian Bay Portraits, P0206-027598]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-J_Christian_Bay.jpg?h=8bcc14f3&itok=RY5bMuWK "J. Christian Bay. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Jens Christian Bay Portraits, P0206-027598]")
J. Christian Bay was born to Lars and Doris Christiansen Bay on October 12, 1871, in…
![Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Nathan%20Boone.jpg?h=4253ce28&itok=IjWRbAYP "Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]")
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s…
![A 1911 State Highway Department map of the Boone’s Lick Road and Santa Fe Trail. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 850 M691h 1911]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-05/1.-boones-lick-road.jpg?itok=KLOxhlwD "A 1911 State Highway Department map of the Boone’s Lick Road and Santa Fe Trail. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 850 M691h 1911]")
The Boone’s Lick Road was the first major conduit to the trans-Mississippi West after the …
![Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-06/1.%20Oliver%20Cromwell%20Cox.jpg?h=b830025e&itok=YUZObNqW "Oliver Cromwell Cox as he appeared in Lincoln University’s yearbook in 1962. [The Archives, Lincoln University, 1962]")
Oliver Cromwell Cox was arguably one of the most controversial mid-twentieth-century social…
Elizabeth Jane Dugan, better known by her pseudonym “Rosa Pearle,” was the founder, editor…
![Gert Goebel. [Courtesy of Edith Moore]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Gert-Goebel.jpg?h=e6a97a35&itok=BgcFo_EZ "Gert Goebel. [Courtesy of Edith Moore]")
Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in…