Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
During the early hours of December 16, 1811, a series of violent shakes roused inhabitants of the mid-Mississippi…
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…
John Emerson, a lawyer in Ironton, Missouri, became a small-town Victorian gentleman who…