Mathias Splitlog (Dyut-Ru-Tu-Re), Washington, DC, 1896. [Smithsonian Institution, NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00976A, photo by William Dinwiddie]
Mathias Splitlog (c.1812–1897)

The life of Mathias Splitlog is a classic story of a man who went from rags to riches. The son of a French…

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St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company

The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…

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Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]
The Stone Prairie Home Guard

The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry…

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Letterhead, Barnesley Brothers Cutlery Company, August 1905. Courtesy of James Barnsley and Robert O. Banks, Jr.
The Barnsley Brothers Cutlery Company

The Barnsley Brothers Cutlery Company was a manufacturer and wholesaler of knives, straight razors…

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Silas Turnbo. [Courtesy of the Springfield–Greene County Library District]
Silas C. Turnbo (1844–1925)

Silas C. Turnbo collected stories from Ozarkers in the upper White River country of…

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Lucile Morris Upton. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Press Portraits, P1196-018227]
Lucile Morris Upton (1898–1992)

Family stories and tales of the place where she grew up propelled Lucile Morris Upton into a lifelong…

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The Yocum Brothers

The Yocums, a prolific clan in the interior Ozarks for two centuries, are inextricably…

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