First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of 'the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts, . . .of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheep-men, of the tragic scarcity of ...

Manufacturer: Bison Books
Written By: Mari Sandoz

Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central Kansas. A young man of courage, common sense, and independence, Ruede was filled with the optimism and determination typical of the men and women who took up the challenge of homesteading on the prairie. Brought together by economist John Ise and first published ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
Written By: Howard Ruede

Throughout history symbols have been used in a variety of ways, often playing important roles. Each state has its own representative symbols - ranging from seals, flags, and buildings to rocks, minerals, plants, and animals - but how did they come to be chosen? In Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More, John C. Fisher provides an answer to that question for Missourians with a handy reference on the ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: John C. Fisher

One of the first books to examine the experiences of teachers who were the daughters of western pioneers--now in paperback.

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Mary Hurlbut Cordier

These documentary photographs are the best from the University of Missouri Photography Workshop's 43 years--truly an historical record of the heartbeat of America--of family, of tradition, of change. Small town America's uniqueness and universality is revealed in 215 duotone prints.

Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
Written By: Clifton C. Edom, Vilia C. Edom, Verna Mae Edom

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: George Lipsitz

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Robert R. Dykstra

"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

Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their ...

Manufacturer: Iowa State Press
Written By: Elmer Schwieder, Dorothy Schwieder