the State Historical Society of Missouri
![John B. C. Lucas. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N29998]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John_BC_Lucas.jpg?h=9a44d118&itok=IIIW0a5- "John B. C. Lucas. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N29998]")
When John B. C. Lucas died in St. Louis in 1842 at the age of eighty-four, his obituary…
![William McKendree. [O. P. Fitzgerald, Centenary Cameos: 1784–1884]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20William%20McKendree.jpg?h=46e02049&itok=ZG_kszlb "William McKendree. [O. P. Fitzgerald, Centenary Cameos: 1784–1884]")
William McKendree was the first American-born bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and…
![Alexander McNair. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection Records, P1042-13377,]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Alexander_McNair.jpg?h=a61b2d4a&itok=PUNvRjo2 "Alexander McNair. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection Records, P1042-13377,]")
Alexander McNair, the first governor of the state of Missouri, was born in what was then…
![<em>Missouri Indian, Oto Indian, Chief of the Puncas</em>, portraits made by Karl Bodmer during an exploration of the Missouri River and its environs led by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1833–1834. The Missouria man portrayed is Mahinkacha (Maker of Knives). [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, <a href=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/art/id/477/> 1958.0007c1</a>]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-missouria.jpg?itok=Qzyu2w6o "<em>Missouri Indian, Oto Indian, Chief of the Puncas</em>, portraits made by Karl Bodmer during an exploration of the Missouri River and its environs led by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1833–1834. The Missouria man portrayed is Mahinkacha (Maker of Knives). [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, <a href=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/art/id/477/ >1958.0007c1</a>]")
When French explorer Robert La Salle passed by the mouth of the Missouri River in 1682, he wrote that on its banks…
![John Mullanphy. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, vol. 3 (1899)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John_Mullanphy.jpg?h=5986835a&itok=Fo6mCsCS "John Mullanphy. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, vol. 3 (1899)]")
John Mullanphy, a merchant and philanthropist, was born in 1758 in northern Ireland near…
During the early hours of December 16, 1811, a series of violent shakes roused inhabitants of the mid-Mississippi…
![Mo-Hon-Go (Sacred Sun), an Osage woman, and her child. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Image Collection, 021180]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Osage-woman-and-child.jpg?h=238c05a8&itok=9oO6EF7v "Mo-Hon-Go (Sacred Sun), an Osage woman, and her child. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Image Collection, 021180]")
![An early edition of the Missouri Intelligencer and Boon’s Lick Advertiser, August 20, 1819. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Newspaper Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Nathaniel-Patten-Boon%27s-Lick-Advertiser.jpg?h=f7ec007d&itok=de0Iqt-i "An early edition of the Missouri Intelligencer and Boon’s Lick Advertiser, August 20, 1819. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Newspaper Collection]")
Nathaniel Patten Jr. could be characterized as Missouri’s quintessential pioneer country…
![John Mason Peck. [Album of Missouri Baptists (St. Louis: Central Baptist Pub. Co., 1904), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/John-Mason-Peck.jpg?h=ef195d8b&itok=yT860gN7 "John Mason Peck. [Album of Missouri Baptists (St. Louis: Central Baptist Pub. Co., 1904), p. 2]")
John Mason Peck, a pioneer, Baptist missionary, noted preacher, author, and journalist on…
![Bernard Pratte. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N46666]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Bernard-Pratte.jpg?h=e60c9bd5&itok=y0XzssIr "Bernard Pratte. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N46666]")
Bernard Pratte’s father, Jean Baptiste, settled first on the east bank of the Mississippi.…