A History of Missouri
Subtitle: 1919-1953 (History of Missouri)
Edition: The Missouri Sesquicentennial Ed edition
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: December 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780826204943
Subjects: Local history; Social history; 20th century; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); U.S. Local History - Old Southwest States; History - General History; History - U.S; History: American; Missouri; United States - 20th Century/50s; United States - State & Local; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History
First sentence: On 3 May 1919, the 129th Field Artillery Regiment of the Thirty-fifth Division detrained at Kansas City's magnificent, nearly new Union Station, a symbol of the city's aspirations, and the soldiers received a hero's welcome as the regiment marched through the crowded downtown streets.