Established in 1808 under the superintendence of William Clark, Fort Osage served as a US military outpost and a…
The French Revolution induced many royalists to emigrate to the Louisiana Territory in the…
Later in life William Gilliss would be a successful trader, real estate speculator, and…
Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in…
At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, Charles Gratiot’s outspoken support for the incoming…
From his father, Wheelwright Harmon Gregg, Josiah Gregg inherited a roving spirit that…
John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…
Christian Hawken, a respected gunsmith of Hagerstown, Maryland, taught his six sons and…
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the…