Exploring Missouri's Legacy
Subtitle: State Parks and Historic Sites
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: September 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780826208347
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Geology & the lithosphere; Historical geography; Human geography; Physical geography; TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; United States - Midwest - Missouri; Missouri - Local History; Parks; Photography; Nature; Photo Essays; North America; USA; General; Essays; Description and travel; Historic sites; History, Local; Missouri
First sentence: THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC parks in Missouri gestated for half a century before Gov. Frederick Gardner signed an act of the Missouri General Assembly creating a state park fund on April 9, 1917, and it has continued to evolve for three-quarters of a century since.