the State Historical Society of Missouri
The Baby Tooth Survey was formed in 1958 by the Committee of Nuclear Information, a grassroots organization that…
![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…
During the early hours of December 16, 1811, a series of violent shakes roused inhabitants of the mid-Mississippi…
![Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Theodore-Pease-Russell.jpg?h=db1a3328&itok=6tNlCApu "Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]")
Born in 1820, Theodore Russell was the third son of Cyrus and Rebecca Russell, who…
![Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Dan-Saults.jpg?h=fbb74155&itok=5Cih8Mos "Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]")
Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years. Trained…
![Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Henry-Rowe-Schoolcraft.jpg?h=604cd0e2&itok=nO__aAnQ "Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]")
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…