Easy-to-read text with bright, full color photographs brings Missouri to young students. Presented in a simple, easily understandable, "scrapbook" format, kids will truly enjoy opening this travelogue-like book. This 48-page book is filled with current state facts and statistical data. Important historical information segues to up-to-date details on cities, economics, geography, and climate. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
It's 1884, and after devastating losses in South Dakota, Laura, Manly, and little Rose head East to Mansfield, Missouri, in search of a new beginning.
County sheriff Lewis Holcomb ; p.o. 1882 - now . 2. A popular place - name , usually derogatory but sometimes selfdepreciating , indicating an out - of - the - way location so sparsely populated that opossums established unmolested ...
The first of three kindred novels set in the American Midwest of the 1920s from national bestselling author Dorothy Garlock's.
He has written and edited a number of books focusing on the war in his home state, including Missouri Confederates. He lives in Jefferson City, Missouri./div
These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today.
... wet ground boiler { boi ' luhr } —a tank for making steam to heat buildings and to run engines Bolduc { bol duk ' } — a French family that lived in early Ste . Genevieve bonds { bahndz } —certificates sold promising to pay the owner ...
This handbook is provided in print and online to more than 60,000 notaries across the state, each of whom takes acknowledgements, administers oaths and affirmations, and certifies that copies of documents are true copies.
Until 1845, Missouri was the westernmost state and a starting point for pioneers heading farther west.
Paris, Tightwad, Peculiar, Neosho, Gasconade, Hannibal, Diamond, Quarantine, Zif, and Zig. These are just a few of the names Margot Ford McMillen covers in her lively book on the history...