James Pierson Beckwith, better known as Jim Beckwourth following the publication of…
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…
A group of German-Swiss immigrants landed in Philadelphia in 1710 and settled in southeast…
A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…
Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic…
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…