the State Historical Society of Missouri
![James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-James-Milton-Turner.jpg?h=d64323c3&itok=nkqu6MYa "James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]")
Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as…
![The Whig Party’s national ticket in 1848 included presidential candidate Zachary Taylor and vice presidential candidate Millard Fillmore. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-09004]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Whig-Party-1848-election.jpg?h=71843103&itok=jpR2qCOY "The Whig Party’s national ticket in 1848 included presidential candidate Zachary Taylor and vice presidential candidate Millard Fillmore. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-09004]")
Though not organized until several years after the party had formed at the national…
![Osage Chief with Two Warriors, oil painting on card by George Catlin. [National Gallery of Art, Paul Mellon Collection, 1965.16.68]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-white-hair-paw-hiu-skah.jpg?itok=1uI0lp8Y "Osage Chief with Two Warriors, oil painting on card by George Catlin. [National Gallery of Art, Paul Mellon Collection, 1965.16.68]")
![Otto Widmann in 1883. [Wilson Bulletin, September 1927]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Otto%20Widmann.jpg?h=dcae2d79&itok=LL3zQoQ0 "Otto Widmann in 1883. [Wilson Bulletin, September 1927]")
Missouri’s third governor, Abraham J. Williams served in that office for less than six…
![Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-02/1.-yellowstone-expedition.jpg?h=5893366c&itok=j855eR_C "Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]")
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820 was a military and scientific excursion in which the United States…