Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the…
Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in…
An early pioneer-farming expert and author, Morris Birkbeck exerted an enormous influence…
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis …
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
Established in 1808 under the superintendence of William Clark, Fort Osage served as a US military outpost and a…
John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…
Christian Hawken, a respected gunsmith of Hagerstown, Maryland, taught his six sons and…
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…