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Author : Tom Neumeyer
Publisher : Historical Pub Network
ISBN 13 : 9781893619395
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Historic Cape Girardeau written by Tom Neumeyer and published by Historical Pub Network. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morley Swingle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972430401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Gold of Cape Girardeau written by Morley Swingle and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gold of Cape Girardeau is an exciting historical novel that begins and ends with a modern-day courtroom drama over buried treasure. Young lawyer Allison Culbertson faces a fierce courtroom battle with one of her former law instructors to uncover the truth of the mysterious gold's ownership. The secrets of the treasure emerge in a journey back to the steamboating days along the Mississippi River. Two young lovers face myriad trials and adventures together until--in the ultimate test of their love--the Civil War places them, their community, and an entire nation in devastating turmoil. A wonderful blend of historical fact and well-written fiction, this compelling story is full of courageous characters and vivid historical settings.
Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266428
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book A Missouri Railroad Pioneer written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and the nation. Rhodes presents a more complete picture of Houck than has ever been available: reviewing his life from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. He especially tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through the wilderness of wetlands known as “Swampeast Missouri”—and how these “Houck Roads” provided a boost for population, agriculture, lumbering, and commerce that transformed Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. Rhodes discusses how Houck fits into the era of economic individualism—a time when men with little formal training shaped modern industry—and also gives voice to Houck’s critics and shows that he was not always an easy man to work with. In telling the story of his railroading enterprise, Rhodes chronicles Houck’s battle with the Jay Gould railroad empire and offers key insight into the development of America’s railway system, from the cutthroat practices of ruthless entrepreneurs to the often-comic ineptness of start-up rail lines. More than simply a biography of a business entrepreneur, the book tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri’s territorial period. A Missouri Railroad Pioneer chronicles a multifaceted career that transformed a region. Solidly researched, this lively narrative also offers an entertaining read for anyone interested in Missouri history.
Author : Sharon Woods Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615631448
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Killerfind written by Sharon Woods Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rhetta McCarter's '79 Camaro is destroyed in a fire, her best friend and mechanic Victoria (Ricky) Lane, finds a replacement, a "barnfind" vintage Camaro in perfect condition, except for one major flaw: a body buried beneath it. Later, Ricky is arrested when a second victim is found murdered in the same barn. Rhetta is convinced not only that Ricky is innocent, but that the two murders are connected. The police don't agree, so Rhetta is forced to fight her way through a labyrinth of danger and misdirection to find the real murderer before the killer finds her first.
Author : Goodspeed Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Southeast Missouri written by Goodspeed Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given by Eugene Edge III.
Author : Ike Skelton
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332841
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Achieve the Honorable written by Ike Skelton and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up during the Great Depression and World War II, Ike Skelton dreamed of joining the military. That dream was shattered when he contracted one of the most dreaded diseases of the era: polio. Far from abandoning hope, Skelton, after treatment at Warm Springs, Georgia, overcame his disability and went on to become a college athlete, a celebrated lawyer, a Missouri state senator, and a U.S. Congressman. Achieve the Honorable is the deeply personal tale of Ike Skelton’s determined journey from the small town of Lexington, Missouri, to Capitol Hill. During his years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Skelton became known as a bipartisan negotiator and a champion of the Armed Services. Throughout the decades, he helped steer the nation through its most dangerous challenges, from Communism to terrorism; took a leading role in the reform of the Department of Defense; dedicated himself to fulfilling the interests of his constituents; and eventually rose to become chair of the House Armed Services Committee during such pivotal events as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to detailing Skelton’s political career and its accompanying challenges and triumphs, Achieve the Honorable provides inside glimpses into the lives of political titans like Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. Along the way, we are treated to Skelton’s engaging humor and shrewd insight into twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. politics.
Author : David Wolfe Eaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named ... written by David Wolfe Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Boone County, Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gert Goebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981693972
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Longer Than a Man's Lifetime in Missouri written by Gert Goebel and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of German immigrant Gert Goebel's insightful reflections on life in Franklin County, Missouri from the 1830s to the 1870s, including his thoughts about nineteenth-century German settlement in Missouri.
Author : Dean Klinkenberg
Publisher : Dean Klinkenberg
ISBN 13 : 9780971690448
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Lansing to LeClaire Travel Guide written by Dean Klinkenberg and published by Dean Klinkenberg. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : Haunted America
ISBN 13 : 9781609497590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Haunted Cape Girardeau written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by Haunted America. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 250 years, the mighty Mississippi has granted Cape Girardeau a legacy of prosperity and dealt it some fearsome scars. Walk through buildings cut by the shrapnel of exploding steamboats, swamped in the debris of sudden floods and haunted by the restless spirits of those who washed ashore. And beyond the riverfront, tragedy's indelible mark can be found in places like the back row of the Rose Theater or the ashen mists of Spook Hollow. Joel Rhodes keeps company with the most forlorn figures and entrenched phantoms in this history of Cape Girardeau, where the river turns a thousand chilling tales.
Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239703
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Haunted Cape Girardeau written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “frightful compilation” of ghost stories flows from the rich history of the Missouri college town located on a bend in the Mississippi River (Southeast Missourian). For nearly two hundred-fifty years, the mighty Mississippi has granted Cape Girardeau a legacy of prosperity and dealt it some fearsome scars. Walk through buildings cut by the shrapnel of exploding steamboats, swamped in the debris of sudden floods, and haunted by the restless spirits of those who washed ashore. Beyond the riverfront, tragedy’s indelible mark can be found in places like the back row of the Rose Theater or the ashen mists of Spook Hollow. Joel P. Rhodes keeps company with the most forlorn figures and entrenched phantoms in this history of Cape Girardeau, where the river turns a thousand chilling tales. Includes photos!
Author : Edward Calvin Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Matthews written by Edward Calvin Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Fred Kniffen Book Award for best-authored book in the field of North American material culture. Awarded the 2006 Governor's Book Award from the Missouri Humanities' Council.
Author : Robert Sidney Douglass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Southeast Missouri written by Robert Sidney Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780962289163
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Kansas City, America's Crossroads written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen articles in this anthology, previously published in the Missouri Historical Review, examine multiple facets of Kansas City's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with events prior to the settlement of the area, the essays describe important episodes in the social, economic, racial, and political life of Kansas City. Boss Tom Pendergast, conflict between incoming Mormons and earlier settlers, and a young female teacher's experience in the 1840s all figure into this rich history of the Kansas City area.
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ISBN 13 : 9780893080877
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon L. Hawker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Missouri Landscapes written by Jon L. Hawker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this magnificent book, Oliver Schuchard provides more than sixty-five exquisite black-and-white photographs spanning his thirty-eight years of photography. In addition, he explains the aesthetic rationale and techniques he used in order to produce these photographs, emphasizing the profound differences between, yet necessary interdependence of, craft and content. Although Schuchard believes that craft is important, he maintains that the idea behind the photograph and the emotional content of the image are equally vital and are, in fact, functions of one another. The author also shares components of his life experience that he believes helped shape his development as an artist and a teacher. He chose the splendid photographs included in this book from among nearly 5,000 negatives that had been exposed all over the world, from Missouri to Maine, California, Alaska, Colorado, France, Newfoundland, and Hawaii, among many other locations. Approximately 250 negatives survived the initial review, and each of those was printed before a final decision was made on which photographs were to be featured in the book. The final choices are representative of Schuchard's work and serve to substantiate his belief that craft, concept, and self must be fully understood and carefully melded for a good photograph to occur. This amazing work by award-winning photographer Oliver Schuchard will be treasured by professional and amateur photographers alike, as well as by anyone who simply enjoys superb photography."--Publishers website.
