Books from Truman State University Press
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Ella Ewing: The Missouri Giantess
By Jason OffuttBarnum's circus merged with the Cooper and Bailey Circus and became the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1881. After Barnum died in 1891, James A. Bailey became the boss. In 1897 he invited Ella Ewing to join the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Marie Meyer Fower: Barnstormer
By Christine MontgomeryWomen Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record- Setting Journeys. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013. McCarthy, Megan. Daredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
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William Clark: Explorer and Diplomat
By Jeffrey SmithLewis and Clark Expedition: American Indians. www.nps.gov/nr/travel/lewisandclark/Indians. htm National Park Service. ... Lewis and Clark Tailor Made, Trail Worn: Army Life, Clothing, and Weapons of the Corps of Discovery.
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The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman
By Raymond H. GeselbrachtPresident Harry S Truman's contribution to civil rights is generally viewed as substantial and important. But some historians are inclined to regard his achievement as meagre, hesitantly undertaken, polluted by...
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Rebel on the Road: And why I was Never Neutral
By Michael FromeMichael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist and the premier environmental muckraker who knows a lot about integrity and dedication. He spent years as a media writer defending the environment,...
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Olive Boone: Frontier Woman
By Greta RussellFrontier Woman Greta Russell. Markham Museum and Historic Village. ... Nathan. Boone. Index Nathan as soldier, 33, 36, 38–39 Boone, Daniel, 5,. Bounds, Myron. Van Bibber e-Pioneers 2, no. ... Nathan Boone and the American Frontier.
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Stan Musial: Baseball Hero
By James M. GiglioStan Musial was one of the greatest baseball hitters of all time.
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Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution
By Allen G. Debus, Michael Thomson WaltonFifteen essays in the history of science teach us that we must judge the work of earlier authors in its entirety and relate these views to the medical, religious, and even the political maelstrom of the period.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship
By Myron A. Marty, Shirley L. MartyThis book tells the story of the Taliesin Fellowship, created by Frank and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright in 1932, in the words of men and women who joined the Fellowship, some...
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Creating Another Self: Voice in Modern American Personal Poetry
By Samuel MaioIn this expanded and updated volume, Samuel Maio is definitive and comprehensive in his discussion of American personal poetry. While broadening the concept of persona to include the first-person speaker,...
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Jean Jennings Bartik: Computer Pioneer
By Kim D. ToddAs a young girl in the 1930s, Jean Bartik dreamed of adventures in the world beyond her family's farm in northwestern Missouri.
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Crush Depth
By Michael SpenceThis collection of lyric poems offers a unique look at the shared, but very different experiences of life in the Navy for father and son. The poems form a three-part...
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Sam Nightingale: Slave, Storyteller, and Conjure Man
By Mary BarileSam became known as a wonderful storyteller and as someone who used magic. The tales he told, and the tales told about him, are still being heard today.
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Watkins Mill: The Factory on the Farm
By Louis W. Potts, Ann M. SligarWhen Waltus Watkins, a successful farmer and entrepreneur, decided to open a woollen mill on his rural western Missouri property in the late 1850s, he was not just undertaking another...
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Jeffrey Deroine: Ioway Translator, Frontier Diplomat
By Greg OlsonBirchbark Brigade: A Fur Trade History. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2009. Sivertson, Howard. The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories. Duluth, MN: Lake Superior Port Cities, 1999. Swain, Gwenyth.
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Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance
By James Veazie SkalnikEducator and reformer Peter Ramus (1515-72) was known for his rash assaults on the most esteemed and cherished foundations of religion and learning in France. As a leading figure in...
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Theological and Aesthetic Roots in the Stone-Campbell Movement
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Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer
By H. J. Selderhuis, Salvatore CaponettoA lifetime of research is woven into 'La Riforma protestante nell' Italia del Cinquecento' by Salvatore Caponetto. Caponetto bases his work heavily on original sources, including Holy Office records.
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Primitive Mood
By David MooltenThis collection of poems examines the damaged lives of society's lost and marginalised using myth and fairy tale as an ironic lens. Eschewing sentiment or facile prescription, poet David Moolten's...
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Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer
By H. J. SelderhuisA revealing and stimulating description of the sixteenth-century reformer and his theory and practice of marriage and divorce.