Sometimes we underestimate the mobility of the early generations of European settlers in what became the U. S.

A traveler from southeastern New York, Christian Schultz, descended the Ohio River in 1807. He stopped at the mouth of the Ohio River on the Missouri side on October 24, 1807, and noticed a strange phenomenon.

The morning of November 15, 1923, was out of the ordinary at the Bank of Patterson in Wayne County. The cashier, Clacy T. Kinder, failed to appear.

Heavy rains fell in late spring and early summer of 1814 in the eastern part of Missouri Territory.

A short drive down County Road 508 in Bollinger County leads to the quiet site of the former location of the Grassy Towersite.

In early 1882, three would-be entrepreneurs from Illinois, Dr. Henry Clay Fish, Richard P. Dobbs and James G. Christian, tested the waters of several springs in Perry County.

The road to getting federal land into private hands through purchase was often complicated in the early 1800s.

William H. McLane, born July 6, 1816, was the youngest of six sons of John McLane and Lydia Lawrence McLane.

Perhaps the most prominent man and largest landowner from Lincoln County, North Carolina, to move to Missouri in the early 1800s was Captain Henry Whitener.

Early settlers in the old lead belt that became Washington and adjacent counties were French until the late 1790s.