A portrait of Alexander Doniphan, painted by George Caleb Bingham around 1850
Alexander W. Doniphan (1808–1887)

Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…

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Aerial of Fort Osage
Fort Osage

Established in 1808 under the superintendence of William Clark, Fort Osage served as a US military outpost and a…

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Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]
The Ioways

The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…

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