Missouri Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars, pg 2/3
for educators and home schoolers; themed decor in studio or office.

The Kansas Ctiy stockyards were established in 1871 to enable ranchers to get the higher prices for their livestock. The stockyards never recovered from the Great Flood of 1951, and closed in 1991. Kemper Arena was built at the site and hosts the American Royal livestock show which began in 1899 in the stockyards.

Saint Joseph, Missouri was founded by Joseph Robidoux, a local fur trader, and in its early days was a rough frontier outpost, one of the last supply and jumping-off point over the Missouri River toward the “Wild West”. Until after the American Civil War, ‘St. Joe’ was the westernmost point in the United States accessible by rail.

St. Joseph was the eastern point of the Pony Express, a system of horseback riders relay carrying messages across the prairies, plains, deserts, and mountains of the Western United States from April 1860 to October 1861. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was 15 when he started riding for the Pony Express.

The Wah-Zha-Zhe tribe that became known as the Osage lived in central and western Missouri by the late 1600s. The name Osage comes from Ouchage, the French word explorer Jacques Marquette gave to the tribe he met.

The name Osage is also the name of the river that flows into the Missouri River in the central part of the state. The Missouri Constitution fixed the location of the capital upon the Missouri River, within forty miles of the mouth of the Osage River.

• more Native American Cultures posters

George Caleb Bingham
b. 3-20-1811; Virginia
d. 7-7-1879; Missouri

George Caleb Bingham was a self taught artist whose work depicts the early settlement era of Missouri.

- you tell me - do the traders have a cat or fox tethered on their craft?

Taum Sauk, the highest elevation in Missouri at 1,772 feet, is part of the Saint Francois Mountain region of the Ozarks.

Artist Thomas Hart Benton
b. 4-15-1889; Neosho, Missouri
d. 1-19-1975; Kansas City, MO

The artist Thomas Hart Benton was the great-nephew of Missouri's first senator, also named Thomas Hart Benton.

Benton's mural “A Social History of Missouri” was painted for the House Lounge in the Missouri State Capitol Building, Jefferson City, 1935/6.

• Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio State Historic Site
• Missouri State Capitol Murals

Mark Twain Fine Art Poster, Global PathMarker

“Loyalty to a petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

available only at-
Creative Process

• more Mark Twain posters

Jesse Woodson James
b. 9-5-1847; Kearney, Missouri
d. 4-3-1882; St. Joseph, MO

The outlaw Jesse James was the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang.

Before and during the Civil War Jesse, and his brother Frank, were guerrillas on the Confederate side; after the war they turned to bank, stagecoach, and train robberies.

U. S. Grant
b. 4-27-1822; Point Pleasant, OH
d. 8-28-1885; Mt. McGregor, NY

• U. S. Grant poster

Harry S Truman
b. 5-8-1884; Lamar, Missouri
d. 12-26-1972; KCMO

• Harry S Truman poster

U.S. Route 66, colloquially known as the “Main Street of America” or the “Mother Road” (by John Steinbeck in the Grapes of Wrath), originally ran 2,448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. It has been replaced by the Interstate Highway System and the Missouri portion of the old road is designated as a National Scenic Byway.

I'm From Missouri (1939)

Champion mule raiser from Missouri takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. -- Umm, mad cap comedy??- go ahead, “Show Me!”

BTW - A mule is the offsprint of a male donkey and a female horse.

The Girl from Missouri - The only proposal this “show” (show-me!!) girl, played by Kansas City, Missouri native Jean Harlow, will entertain is one of marriage from a rich man.

Walt Disney's inspiration for Mickey Mouse was a real mouse who inhabitated Disney's studio at 31st and Forest, in Kansas City.

Meet Me in St. Louis, Mini Poster

Meet Me In St. Louis, is a 1944 romantic musical starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Marjorie Main, Lucille Brennan and Tom Drake. The story is about a comfortable family living in St. Louis just as the 1904 World's Fair is to begin.