Missouri Biography Series – serie
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Francois Vallé and His World
Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark
Häftad, 2017
377 kr
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Winner of the Kemper & Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History for excellence in historical scholarship for the year 2002, awarded by The Historic New Orleans Collection, The Louisiana Historical Association.In François Vallé and His World, Carl Ekberg provides a fascinating biography of François …
Missouri's Confederate
Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West
Häftad, 2021
271 kr
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Claiborne Fox Jackson (1806-1862) remains one of Missouri's most controversial historical figures. Elected Missouri's governor in 1860 after serving as a state legislator and Democratic party chief, Jackson was the force behind a movement for the neutral state's secession before a federal sortie …
Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies
The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen
Av Greg Olson
Häftad, 2025
252 kr
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Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen “the most famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.” Drawing on primary sources, such as maps, census records, court documents, personal letters and periodicals, and the scholarship of others who have analyzed various components of Owen’s …
Pendergast!
Av Lawrence H. Larsen, Nancy J. Hulston
Häftad, 2016
279 kr
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More than a half-century after the death of Kansas City's notorious political boss, Thomas J. Pendergast, the Pendergast name still evokes great interest and even controversy. Now, in this first full-scale biography of Pendergast, Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston have successfully …
Missouri Railroad Pioneer
The Life of Louis Houck
Häftad, 2017
279 kr
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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, …
James Milton Turner and the Promise of America
The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader
Häftad, 2020
245 kr
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James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. The Civil War, he believed, had purged the land of its sins and allowed the country to realize what had always been its promise: the creation of a social and …
