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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464399103321

Titolo

The Ozarks in Missouri history : discoveries in an American region / / Lynn Morrow, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, Missouri : , : University of Missouri Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8262-7303-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorrowLynn

Disciplina

977.8

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - Missouri

Electronic books.

Missouri History

Ozark Mountains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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