"Authentic history, delightfully told" is the way Ray A. Billington, renowned historian of the Old West, described this collection. David Dary, award-winning chronicler of life on the frontier plains, is at his entertaining best in these thirty-nine episodes, sagas, and tales from Kansas's vigorous, free-spirited past. Many of the stories appeared in Dary's True Tales of the Old-Time ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
Written By: David Dary

Missouri boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes, lengths, and shapes. This grand tour sheds light on the historical significance of caves, corrects misinformation about them, and describes how people have used and abused them. Weaver tells how caves have enriched our knowledge of extinct animals and early Native Americans. Caves were used for burial sites and ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: H. Dwight Weaver

Follow as events transpire across Missouri within those four long years. From raids and pursuit of the outlaws to the hunting down of Southern sympathizers and the Federal scouting parties across the state. Something for everyone in this book. This book is deemed by many readers as a Missouri classic. Illustrations by Rocky Medley.

Manufacturer: Two Trails Pub
Written By: Rocky Medley

George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. George Byron Merrick ...

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: George Byron Merrick

The epic tale of Missouri's history from ancient times to today is related here in a concise, accessible format--from the Native American cultures to the territorial period; from the agony of the Civil War to the freewheeling era of jazz and Prohibition; and from 20-century labor and Civil Rights struggles to the triumph of the St. Louis Arch. Descriptions of many of these tumultuous times ...

Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
Written By: Sean McLachlan

This book is a genealogical and historical account of the Gamache family from 1565 in France to the present day in the United States. Ten generations are listed. Among the Gamache family accomplishments are the founding of Cap St. Ignace, Quebec, Canada and the founding of St. Louis, Missouri.

Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Written By: Marquis de Gamache

As Karen M. Goering once wrote, "During its near hundred-year reign as St. Louis' chief symbol - and more recently as the city's most visible connection with its rich past - the Eads Bridge has inspired an outpouring of creative work from artists, illustrators and photographers." Originally published in 1979, The Eads Bridge, by Quinta Scott and Howard S. Miller, is a powerful example of the ...

Manufacturer: Missouri Historical Society Press
Written By: Howard S. Miller

Manufacturer: Printed by Litho Printers and Bindery
Written By: Edith S McCall

Missourians could hardly have made a more appropriate decision than to name their capital after Thomas Jefferson. A meeting place of major rivers, Missouri became a gateway to the beckoning West opened up to Americans by Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. In the era of overland traders and steamboat pilots, of Thomas Hart Benton and Mark Twain, life in Missouri was strongly flavored by the ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
Written By: Paul C. Nagel

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: Stephen C. Lesueur