Books from University of Missouri Press
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Jesse James was His Name: Or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri
By William A. Settle10 When the funeral party reached Kearney she cried out to Sheriff Timberlake , " Oh , Mr. Timberlake , my son has gone to God , but his friends still live ...
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Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers
By Susan Caust FarrellBell Accordion Corp. ... Dr. Evan Bell , Donald Kottick , Edward L. Belt , Philip , and Maribel Meyer , Kenton Meisel Middleton , Art Benn , Bradley W. M. Osborne , Joseph Bishop , Walter H. Peters , Jack Blood , William Poulton ...
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Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope
By Karen Marguerite MoloneyChristensen explains: “A few spores of one of the fairy- ring mushrooms fall upon a favorable place and begin to grow. . . . [in] an approximately circular patch of mycelium. . . . After a few years mushrooms spring up near the outer ...
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Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the...
By John William RepsUnion list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
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Doors: Stories
By William HoffmanIn Roll Call, a Southern gentleman works hard to maintain gentlemanly appearances, Place is on a poor woman's disillusion with her rich boyfriend, while the title story is on a snobbish widow and her house repairman.
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Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative
By William Earl ParrishWithin the Missouri delegation , only Thomas L. Anderson supported him . A Know - Nothing , Anderson had received Frank's endorsement for reelection in 1858 as a member of the Opposition Party and now proved himself worthy of that ...
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From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The "Bold and Dashing Life" of Robert Campbell, Revised and Expanded Edition
By William R. Nester... 1970); William G. Shade, Banks or No Banks: The Money Issues in Western Politics, 1832–1865 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972). 27. John Ray Cable, The Bank of the State ofMissouri (1923; New York: AMS Press, 1969), 129.
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Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944
By Robert H. Ferrell... interpretations, and suggestions on the intriguing subject of the choice of Harry S. Truman: J. Garry Clifford, James W. Goodrich, Robert Guth, Charles V. Reynolds, J r., Stephen L. Vaughn, Francis Wyman, Robert H. Zieger.
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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
By James W. Endersby, William T. HornerKentucky, 95, 110, 302–3n43 Hammett, Aubrey R., Jr., 262, 348n135 Harlan, John Marshall, 27, 28, 29, 36 Harris, Joseph P., 17 Hastie, William H., Jr., 32, 43, 70, 195, 206, 269, 285n4 Heckel, Albert, 146 Helena Daily Independent, ...
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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation
By James W. Endersby, William T. Horner1. Lloyd Gaines and the Missouri milieu -- 2.
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Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West
By John HalesEven then, I knew the connection between land surveying and environmental devastation, and I'd done some thinking about the John Wesley Powell connection. At various times I'd staked out various positions in the continuing argument over ...
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Robert H. Gardiner and the Reunification of Worldwide Christianity in the Progressive Era
By John Frederick WoolvertonThe ragtime musician Scott Joplin, who arrived at the fair to play “jig” piano, or “cakewalks,” found no place to relieve himself save at the Haitian Pavilion on the Midway, managed by an indignant Frederick Douglass.8 Still, ...
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The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883
By William Barclay NaptonThe biggest benefit of teaching is the great people and students with whom we work . ... Phil and Linda Kelly , Bill Parrish , Louis S. Gerteis , and William W. Freehling , among others , have listened , always patiently , to ramblings ...
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J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: Innovation in Planned Residential Communities
By William S. WorleyRuger's “Bird's-Eye View of Kansas City,” c. 1878, is reprinted in Brown and Dorsett, K. C., frontispiece. 17. Helen C. Monchow, “Finding a Base-Year for the Study THE CITY OF KANSAS 49.
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Equatorial Guinean Literature in its National and Transnational Contexts
By Marvin A. LewisThe interesting aspect of Conspiracy on the Green is that in the plot against the Congo, historical figures are named, such as Clare Timberlake, US ambassador; John Profumo, British minister; Dag Hammarskjöld, UN ambassador; ...
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The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance
By Richard A. Sauers, Peter TomasakWilliam Evans and Amos Savage were Union men trying to recruit enough men to fill Fishing Creek Township's quota. Daniel McHenry had argued with them that they should refrain from recruiting service and instead discourage every man from ...
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The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders12 In Julian Mayfield's novel The Hit for a large number of Harlemites the Godot of their daily life is a numbers banker named John Lewis of whom one of the characters says , “ John Lewis never really comes .
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Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England
By Michael J. ConnollySupportive of the radical program and bitter toward Hill,Pierce thought Hubbard would still win easily. “[Hill's] appearance & conduct [is] an indication of monomania. .. .Hubbard will I fear lose at least 150 votes in [Concord] and ...
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Violence in Argentine Literature: Cultural Responses to Tyranny
By David William FosterFor example , we may no longer react in the same way to the sense of horror toward interracial sexual intercourse ascribed to readers ' expectations as they are encoded in works like Faulkner's novels ( where the horror of a work may ...
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Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
By Mark TwainMore than six hundred illustrations help capture the essence of one of America's favorite authors, from his days as a printer, pilot, and soldier to his years as a reporter, humorist, and publisher.