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Military Protection of the Santa Fe Trail and Trade
Title
Military Protection of the Santa Fe Trail and Trade
Description
Photo and article about the history of military protection of the Santa Fe Trail and its trade in the early 1800s between Kansas City and New Mexico.
Date
1954-10
Object Type
Magazine Article
Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians
Title
Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians
Description
Photo and bio of General John Joseph Pershing, or John Pershing, "America's Commanding General in France" during World War I and nicknamed Black Jack Pershing. Born in Linn County, Missouri, near Laclede, Missouri, in 1860 and starting out as a teacher and lawyer before entering the military as an Indian fighter in the Southwest in the 1880s-1890s, then engaging in the Spanish-American War before leading troops against Mexican leader Pancho Villa just before World War I and then entering France during the war.
Date
1923
Object Type
Book
A Snapshot of Alexander W. Doniphan, 1808-1887
Title
A Snapshot of Alexander W. Doniphan, 1808-1887
Description
Biographical article about Colonel Alexander Doniphan (1808-1873), a lawyer, judge, and military officer of Clay County, Missouri known for his refusal to slaughter the Mormons in 1830s Missouri against a direct order.
Date
1943-10
Object Type
Magazine Article
Fort Orleans of the Missoury [sic]
Title
Fort Orleans of the Missoury [sic]
Description
History of Fort Orleans, "earliest military post in the Missouri valley" operated by the French "from 1723 to 1728 on the north bank of the Missouri river, some two miles west of the Wakenda river in what is now Carroll county, Missouri [two counties east of Clay County]."
Date
1941-04
Object Type
Magazine Article
Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians
Title
Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians
Description
Photo and bio of General James Shields (1810-1879), a Missouri soldier and statesman. Native of Ireland emigrating to America for the Seminole War in the 1830s before serving as a military leader in the Mexican War (residing in Illinois as a state representative there) and the Civil War for the Union, then moving to Carrollton, Missouri as a Missouri state representative and then national senator.
Date
1923
Object Type
Book