A view of the upper Missouri River by Karl Bodmer, circa 1830s. Print by Charles Vogel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0047]

William Lewis Sublette was born at Stanford, Kentucky, on September 21, 1799. The family…

Henry von Phul. [J. Thomas Scharf, History of Saint Louis City and County, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts & Co., 1883)]

Henry von Phul was born in Philadelphia in 1784, the son of Johann Wilhelm (later William)…

William Bradford Waddell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Waddell Smith Photograph Collection, P0727]

William Bradford Waddell typified the mid-nineteenth-century entrepreneur who shaped the…

William S. Woods. [A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, 1896]

William Stone Woods was born on November 1, 1840, the son of James Harris and Martha Jane…