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The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was the last known log…
![William Bradford Waddell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Waddell Smith Photograph Collection, P0727]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-11/1.%20William%20Bradford%20Waddell.jpg?h=fb232171&itok=P2hTq5Cy "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…
![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…