This 1853 map of downtown St. Louis looking west includes the location of Bloody Island in the Mississippi River at the bottom. An 1832 oil-on-canvas painting of Maj. Thomas Biddle by Thomas ...

In 1930, a 15-year-old Harry Caray was living in St. Louis when the city hosted an aircraft exhibition honoring aviator Charles Lindbergh. “The ‘first ever’ cow to fly in an airplane was ...