History Online

Springfield-Greene County History

Local History Website of the SMSU Department of History

History Online--Links to Content Websites

Colonial Louisiana

State of Louisiana Site on Louisiana Governors

Lists the governors, has their portraits, and information about them

French Louisiana

Spanish Louisiana

Links on Colonial Louisiana

From Louisiana GenWeb website.

Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana State Museum Site on the Louisiana Purchase

There is information about the purchase and about Louisiana before and after the purchase. There are pictures and a map. This is a very good site.

National Archives Site on the Louisiana Purchase

Includes a picture and the text of the documents

Documents Pertaining to the Louisiana Purchase

Avalon Project, Yale Law School

State of Louisiana Site on Louisiana Governors, U. S. Territory

Lists the governors, has their portraits, and information about them

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Discovering Lewis and Clark

The site has pictures, a map, excerpts from their journals, and biographical information.

Interactive Trail Map (From Discovering Lewis and Clark)

LewisAndClarkTrail.com

This is a commercial site on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It includes information on the expedition, biographical information, and maps

Clark's Map (From LewisAndClarkTrail.com)

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Online text from the University of Virginia American Studies Hypertexts

The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery

This site includes an interactive map, pictures, and information about the expedition. It is at the website of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis. 

National Geographic Site on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

The site includes information, pictures, and excerpts from the journals of the expedition. 

PBS Online Site on Lewis and Clark

Includes information on the expedition, biographical information, pictures, and maps.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Brief biographies at the Kansas City Museum site. 

Early Missouri

Missouri--A Part of the Louisiana Purchase

In Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1910, on the MOGenWeb project website.

Facts about Missouri and Missouri Timeline

Information on Missouri during the colonial period, U. S. territorial period, and as a state

From the Instructional Materials Center, School of Education, UMKC

Fort Osage

Daniel Boon(e)

The Daniel Boone Families Come to Missouri

By Margot Ford McMillen, 1998, in Outside In, the Missouri Conservationist Magazine for Kids, an online publication by the Missouri Department of Conservation
Includes several pictures

Hunt up the Missouri, 1810 (from Archiving Early America)

Historical Information on Daniel Boone

From History of Boone County, Missouri, 1882, from Genealogical Society of Central Missouri.

Portrait (from Archiving Early America)

The Boone Collection

Slide show of a series of paintings commissioned by Truman State University for the film, Daniel Boone, produced by James Paulding.
Includes his late years in Missouri.

Biography of Daniel Boone

From D. M. Kelsey, Pioneer Heroes and Their Daring Deeds, 1902, from American Local History Biographies.
Includes his late years in Missouri.
Includes several pictures.

Biography of Daniel Boone

From Lucidcafe, a commercial website. Includes links to other sites on Boone.
Includes his late years in Missouri.

Adventures of Daniel Boon, 1793

Full online text from Archiving Early America

Alexander McNair

City of St. Louis site on Bellefontaine Road

Portrait at Missouri State Archives List of Governors

Pictures of Gravestone

Thomas Hart Benton

Entry in the U. S. Congress Biographical Directory

Missouri State Archives

The site includes a List of Governors

Native Americans

Osage

The Osage Nation

Most of the information pertains to the Osage in Missouri. It is from an online history of Kansas,  William G. Cutler,  History of the State of Kansas, 1883, from The Kansas Collection, University of Kansas.

Kansas City Museum Site on the Osage Indians

Information, pictures, and a map showing the homeland of the Osage. 

The Osage Nation

Includes information on the history of the Osage. On the OKGenWeb website project.

Maps of Missouri

Interactive Trail Map (From Discovering Lewis and Clark)

Clark's Map (From LewisAndClarkTrail.com)

Missouri Maps from the Kansas City Public Library

Missouri Compromise Map (from RoseCityNet)

Missouri Compromise

Missouri Compromise Map (from RoseCityNet)

Civil War

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield

The battlefield web site includes information on the history of the Battle of Wilson's Creek and the Civil War in Missouri.    

History of Springfield and Greene County

City of Springfield

Public Information Office

History of Springfield

A brief history of the city and information on several historical sites and landmarks.

Springfield Listings in National Register of Historic Places

Landmarks Board Local & National Historic Sites/Districts web page 

Greene County Missouri Historical Society

The web site includes a brief history of Springfield and a brief history of Greene County.

Springfield-Greene County Library, Shepard Room website has the following online texts:

R. I. Holcombe, History of Greene County, Missouri, 1883

Chapter 29, History of the City of Springfield

Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck, Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri, 1915

Chapter 21, City of Springfield

George S. Escott, History and Directory of Springfield and North Springfield,1878

Pictorial and Genealogical Record of Greene County, Missouri

Million Hours of Memories

Click here for the online version of Richard Grosenbaugh, Million Hours of Memories, a brief photo history of the city, that was prepared as part of the celebration of Springfield's Sesquicentennial in 1980

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