Missouri Innovators
Title | Missouri Innovators PDF eBook |
Author | Paul W. Bass |
Publisher | Acclaim Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-04-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781948901147 |
"Missouri Innovators: Famous (and Infamous) Missourians Who Led the Way in Their Field presents over seventy-five exceptional Missourians who have made significant contributions from across many walks of life. They include ground breakers across many diverse fields including entertainment and the fine arts, education and literature, business and industry, science and technology, politics and the military, athletics, and more. Several of these innovators are famous and a few are less known, but all achieved greatness in some form" -- From Amazon.com.
Exploring Missouri's Legacy
Title | Exploring Missouri's Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Flader |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Historic sites |
ISBN | 9780826208347 |
Features an account of the evolution of Missouri's park system and essays on each of the state's historic sites and parks.
Official Manual of the State of Missouri
Title | Official Manual of the State of Missouri PDF eBook |
Author | Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1516 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Executive departments |
ISBN |
Missouri Legends
Title | Missouri Legends PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-04 |
Genre | Celebrities |
ISBN | 9781933370286 |
Brad Pitt. Payne Stewart. Josephine Baker. Walter Cronkite. Thomas Pendergast. George Washington Carver. What do these icons have in common? They were all born and raised in the Show Me State. In Missouri Legends, a fun yet informative new book by TV and radio broadcaster John Brown, well-known politicians, authors, artists, athletes, performers, and historical figures come to life. The book profiles more than 100 famous Missourians. Each profile includes a brief account of a legend's childhood and rise to fame, not to mention a nugget or two of entertaining trivia. Filled with intrigue and information, this book is ideal for those interested in the state's notable people and the stories behind them.
A History of Missouri and Missourians
Title | A History of Missouri and Missourians PDF eBook |
Author | Floyd Calvin Shoemaker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Missouri |
ISBN |
Lewis and Clark in Missouri
Title | Lewis and Clark in Missouri PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rogers |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0826263216 |
In May 1804 Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery embarked on a seven-thousand-mile journey with instructions from President Thomas Jefferson to ascend the Missouri River to its source and continue on to the Pacific. They had spent five months in the St. Louis area preparing for the expedition that began with a six-hundred-mile, ten-week crossing of the future state of Missouri. Prior to this, the explorers had already seen about two hundred miles of Missouri landscape as they traveled up the Mississippi River to St. Louis in the autumn of 1803.
The Missouri Mormon Experience
Title | The Missouri Mormon Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Spencer |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2010-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826272169 |
The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence fed by misunderstanding and suspicion. By the end of 1838, blood was shed, and Governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that Mormons were to be “exterminated or driven from the state.” The Missouri persecutions greatly shaped Mormon faith and culture; this book reexamines Mormon-Missourian history within the sociocultural context of its time. The contributors to this volume unearth the challenges and assumptions on both sides of the conflict, as well as the cultural baggage that dictated how their actions and responses played on each other. Shortly after Joseph Smith proclaimed Jackson County the site of the “New Jerusalem,” Mormon settlers began moving to western Missouri, and by 1833 they made up a third of the county’s population. Mormons and Missourians did not mix well. The new settlers were relocated to Caldwell County, but tensions still escalated, leading to the three-month “Mormon War” in 1838—capped by the Haun’s Mill Massacre, now a seminal event in Mormon history. These nine essays explain why Missouri had an important place in the theology of 1830s Mormonism and was envisioned as the site of a grand temple. The essays also look at interpretations of the massacre, the response of Columbia’s more moderate citizens to imprisoned church leaders (suggesting that the conflict could have been avoided if Smith had instead chosen Columbia as his new Zion), and Mormon migration through the state over the thirty years following their expulsion. Although few Missourians today are aware of this history, many Mormons continue to be suspicious of the state despite the eventual rescinding of Governor Boggs’s order. By depicting the Missouri-Mormon conflict as the result of a particularly volatile blend of cultural and social causes, this book takes a step toward understanding the motivations behind the conflict and sheds new light on the state of religious tolerance in frontier America.