The Ozarks in Missouri History
Subtitle: Discoveries in an American Region
By: edited by Lynn Morrow
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780826220066
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Trader William Gilliss and Delaware Migration in Southern Missouri / Lynn Morrow; title: Slave Labor at the Maramec Iron Works, 1828-1850 / Barbara L. Green; title: "Good Water & Wood but the Country Is a Miserable Botch": Flatland Soldiers Confront the Ozarks / John F. Bradbury Jr.; title: The Race of Improvement: Springfield Society, 1865-1881 / Charles K. Piehl; title: "The City Belongs to the Local Unions": The Rise of the Springfield Labor Movement, 1871-1912 / Stephen L. McIntyre; title: The Ozark Short Line Railroad: A Failed Dream / H. Roger Grant; title: Before Bass Pro: St. Louis Sporting Clubs on the Gasconade River / Lynn Morrow; title: Whose Forest Is This?: Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Ozarks / David Benac; title: Under Penalty of Death: Pierce City's Night of Racial Terror / Jason Navarro; title: "Our Company Feels that the Ozarks are a Good Investment": The Pierce Pennant Tavern System / Keith A. Sculle; title: Lake Placid: "A Recreational Center for Colored People in the Missouri Ozarks" / Gary R. Kremer and Evan P. Orr; title: Reflections on Public Welfare in Washington County, Missouri, 1939-1941 / Clarence R. Keathley; title: Agricultural Change in the Western Ozarks / Milton D. Rafferty; title: The Origin and Development of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Project / Stephen N. Limbaugh