the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Curtis Fletcher Marbut, circa 1930s. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Curtis F. Marbut Papers, C3720]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-11/1.-curtis-marbut.jpg?h=7eacce50&itok=WJeNXo04 "Curtis Fletcher Marbut, circa 1930s. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Curtis F. Marbut Papers, C3720]")
Curtis Fletcher Marbut revolutionized American thinking in soil science and had an…
![In this undated photograph, Mary Margaret McBride (right) interviews Goldena Howard, a local Missouri historian, during a broadcast from the University of Missouri library. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photographs, P0300-014950]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-mary-margaret-mcbride.jpg?h=d30bdad1&itok=ahJDqNgi "In this undated photograph, Mary Margaret McBride (right) interviews Goldena Howard, a local Missouri historian, during a broadcast from the University of Missouri library. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photographs, P0300-014950]")
Described as neurotic and ample, Mary Margaret McBride became a great success on network radio while…
![Keith McCanse pictured on the cover of the April 1929 issue of Missouri Game and Fish News. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1.jpg?itok=VOgSxi80 "Keith McCanse pictured on the cover of the April 1929 issue of Missouri Game and Fish News. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives]")
Governor Sam Baker’s appointment of Keith McCanse as game and fish…
![John Francis McDermott. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38530]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20John%20Francis%20McDermott.jpg?h=8a6fbbac&itok=bgwwJzuW "John Francis McDermott. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38530]")
One of the foremost authorities on the history of culture, art, and society in the…
![Louis Miller. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Lynn Morrow Papers (R1000)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Louis%20Miller.jpg?h=c7675338&itok=13QoOlM1 "Louis Miller. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Lynn Morrow Papers (R1000)]")
Louis Miller was an influential builder-architect who lived in Arcadia, in Iron County, and…
![<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…
![Louis Monsees seated on one of his Missouri mules. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Melvin Bradley Papers, C3026]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Louis_Monsees.jpg?h=36a221a1&itok=wqrk3W1a "Louis Monsees seated on one of his Missouri mules. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Melvin Bradley Papers, C3026]")
Louis M. Monsees, a livestock breeder, is recognized for his contributions to the breeding…
![Walthall Moore Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1929–1930]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-10/1.-walthall-moore-sr.jpg?h=50d821bc&itok=bmMSf1Gl "Walthall Moore Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1929–1930]")
Walthall Moore Sr. was born on May 1, 1886, in Marion, Alabama, the son of John and Sarah…
![Morrow’s Station. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Morrow and Skaggs Families Papers, R1520]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-01/1.-morrows-station.jpg?h=f58e211d&itok=EHHoTkhZ "Morrow’s Station. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Morrow and Skaggs Families Papers, R1520]")
In 1932, George B. Morrow, a merchant and farmer from Iberia, Missouri, purchased three and a half acres of land at…
![Luella St. Clair Moss. [The College Widow, Christian College, 1918]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Luella-St.-Clair-Moss.jpg?h=c9bfe508&itok=3dlVYFIq "Luella St. Clair Moss. [The College Widow, Christian College, 1918]")
Luella St. Clair Moss, an educator and community activist, was born in Virden, Illinois, to…