Joel P Rhodes: 3 books
A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
The Life of Louis Houck
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri,...
Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee
The Sixties in the Lives of American Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This study examines how the multiple social, cultural, and political changes between John Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 and the end of American involvement in Vietnam in 1973 manifested themselves in the lives of preadolescent American children.
Because the preadolescent years are, according...
Haunted Cape Girardeau
Where the River Turns a Thousand Chilling Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This “frightful compilation” of ghost stories flows from the rich history of the Missouri college town located on a bend in the Mississippi River (Southeast Missourian).
For nearly two hundred-fifty years, the mighty Mississippi has granted Cape Girardeau a legacy of prosperity and dealt...