the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nellie-Tayloe-Ross.jpg?h=efb5bc87&itok=My8xv_Wc "Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]")
Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor…
![William Bradford Waddell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Waddell Smith Photograph Collection, P0727]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-11/1.%20William%20Bradford%20Waddell.jpg?h=fb232171&itok=P2hTq5Cy "William Bradford Waddell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Waddell Smith Photograph Collection, P0727]")
William Bradford Waddell typified the mid-nineteenth-century entrepreneur who shaped the…
![Cole Younger, circa 1866. [State Historical Society of Missouri, B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024263]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-08/1.-cole-younger.jpg?h=154323ae&itok=WaT_D9Vi "Cole Younger, circa 1866. [State Historical Society of Missouri, B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024263]")
Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger left his family’s Missouri farm in 1862, at age seventeen, to join William…