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 C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in…
Joseph Charless, the first printer in St. Louis and father of journalism west of the…
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis …
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also…