Carl Wimar, circa 1860. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38636]

In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier…

John Gabriel Woerner. [William F. Woerner, J. Gabriel Woerner: A Biographical Sketch (1912)]

John Gabriel Woerner, a celebrated St. Louis lawyer, legal scholar, journalist, and…

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