Local History Website of the SMSU Department of History

Henry R. Schoolcraft, Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw ... in the Years 1818 and 1819

Missouri Constitution of 1820

Missouri Compromise Documents

Thomas Hart Benton

On the Missouri Compromise

On the Indian Removal

On Public Land

The Destiny of the Race

John S. Phelps, Speech Welcoming the Railroad from St. Louis to Springfield

Accounts of the Shootout between Wild Bill Hickock and Dave Tutt