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

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

"[Kirkendall] addresses other issues that generally receive inadequate attention in volumes of this type. His treatment of the role of women during the crucial years of his study is admirable. Likewise, his analysis of black life in Missouri during those years is important. Not only does he document and describe the oppression faced by blacks, he also writes at length about their creative ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: Richard S. Kirkendall

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

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

Anita M. Mallinckrodt traces the 750-year history of the Mallinckrodt family from its earliest documented beginnings in thirteenth-century Westphalia (in the Dortmund area) through immigration to Missouri in 1831 and beyond.In part 1, Mallinckrodt tells the story of some of her family’s leading personalities in order to explicate the history and society of medieval and ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press
Written By: Anita M. Mallinckrodt

Over the past century, three nationally significant histories have vied for space and place in Independence, Missouri. Independence was declared Zion by Joseph Smith, served as a gathering and provisioning point for trails west, and was called home by President Truman for sixty-four years. Taylor has integrated research from newspapers, public documents, oral histories, and private papers to ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: Jon E. Taylor

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

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: George Lipsitz

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