"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

Flags awaken incredibly powerful and patriotic emotions. Throughout the 1860s, scores of Missouri secession flags, state guard flags, and battle flags unfurled over the ranks of men defending their homelands against invading soldiers from the North. Symbolizing the way of life the men of Missouri sought to protect, these flags provide a unique index to the history of the Civil War in this western ...

Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
Written By: Glenn Dedmondt

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

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

Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri, often brings to mind romanticized images of Twain's fictional characters Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer exploring caves and fishing from the banks of the Mississippi River. In City of Dust, Gregg Andrews tells another story of the Hannibal area, the very real story of the exploitation and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri, an industrial town created ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: Gregg Andrews

This text is about St Louis, from the first steps of Pierre Laclede's to the prototypes of MetroLink. It focuses on the central institutions and personalities that have shaped the city, as well as the events and circumstances bought through fame, or fear, to the citizens of St Louis.

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: James Primm

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

This long-awaited book is the last volume to be published in the five-volume History of Missouri series. Focusing on social, economic, and political life, Volume IV of A History of Missouri provides an in-depth analysis of both rural Missouri and urban development during a time of rapid growth and change in the state. "This volume of A History of Missouri is a solid piece of scholarship. The ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: Lawrence O. Christensen, Gary R. Kremer

Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Written By: Ellsworth Collings