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![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]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20William%20Sublette.jpg?h=618cae78&itok=l2w5KTpm "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…
![Marianne Billeron Vallé’s signature on a baptismal record in 1768. She signed as the godmother to Marie-Louise, the daughter of an enslaved Native American woman. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Parish Records, C3040]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-12/marianne-signature.jpg?h=a2d61f04&itok=bibb_dHf "Marianne Billeron Vallé’s signature on a baptismal record in 1768. She signed as the godmother to Marie-Louise, the daughter of an enslaved Native American woman. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Parish Records, C3040]")
Marianne Billeron Vallé was born in Kaskaskia around 1729, the daughter of…
The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was the last known log…
![Carl Wimar, circa 1860. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38636]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-12/1.%20Carl%20Wimar.jpg?h=8fbf2b56&itok=SGFB1113 "Carl Wimar, circa 1860. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38636]")
In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier…
![Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-02/1.-yellowstone-expedition.jpg?h=5893366c&itok=j855eR_C "Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri, print replicating Karl Bodmer’s painting, 1841. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0006c1]")
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820 was a military and scientific excursion in which the United States…
The Yocums, a prolific clan in the interior Ozarks for two centuries, are inextricably…