the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Austin A. King. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01330]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Austin_A_King.jpg?h=1385baad&itok=zQ3Lk3ZD "Austin A. King. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01330]")
Born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on September 21, 1802, Austin A. King was educated in…
![Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-04/1.%20Arnold%20Krekel.jpg?h=2f801a8e&itok=kE7sGgUx "Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]")
Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of…
![This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Lewis%20and%20Clark.jpg?h=48be2a7f&itok=wWe64dFT "This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]")
Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up…
![Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-09/1.%20Lewis%20Linn.jpg?h=40f6870e&itok=nj-lCZUQ "Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]")
A frontier doctor, Jacksonian Democrat, and US senator, Lewis F. Linn has been called both…
![Isidor Loeb. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896–2010, P0137-12873]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Isidor_Loeb.jpg?h=4a726eab&itok=NfGL8zHm "Isidor Loeb. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896–2010, P0137-12873]")
Isidor Loeb, a longtime Missouri educator and authority on state government and taxation,…
The Louisiana Purchase, an 1803 land deal between the United States and France, doubled the size of the United…
![Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_Lyon.jpg?h=c90d5ca1&itok=40YCdnKd "Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]")
Nathaniel Lyon, a US Army officer from 1841 to 1861, was born in rural Ashford (later…
![Curtis Fletcher Marbut, circa 1930s. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Curtis F. Marbut Papers, C3720]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-11/1.-curtis-marbut.jpg?h=7eacce50&itok=WJeNXo04 "Curtis Fletcher Marbut, circa 1930s. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Curtis F. Marbut Papers, C3720]")
Curtis Fletcher Marbut revolutionized American thinking in soil science and had an…
![John Sappington Marmaduke in his Confederate brigadier general’s uniform. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John-Sappington-Marmaduke.jpg?h=33cfb873&itok=VQtsb9dg "John Sappington Marmaduke in his Confederate brigadier general’s uniform. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06001]")
Born on March 14, 1833, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, John Sappington Marmaduke is the only…
![Keith McCanse pictured on the cover of the April 1929 issue of Missouri Game and Fish News. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1.jpg?itok=VOgSxi80 "Keith McCanse pictured on the cover of the April 1929 issue of Missouri Game and Fish News. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives]")
Governor Sam Baker’s appointment of Keith McCanse as game and fish…