Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Independence, Missouri. Official Website Independence is the county seat of Jackson County . It is known as the "Queen City of the Trails" because it was a point of departure for the California Trail, Oregon Trail , and Santa Fe Trail . Independence was also the hometown of President Harry Truman ; the Truman Presidential Library an...
Add participants in the Utah War of 1857 to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. The Utah War , also known as the Utah Expedition , Utah Campaign , Buchanan's Blunder , the Mormon War , or the Mormon Rebellion was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the United States government. The co...