University Of Missouri Press: 246 books

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Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri

by Howard Wight Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally...
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George Caleb Bingham

Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician

by Paul C. Nagel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005

In this fascinating work, Paul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), one of America’s greatest nineteenth-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham’s artistic achievements, he also portrays another very important part of the artist’s career—his service as a...
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The Civil War in Missouri

A Military History

by Louis S. Gerteis
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012

Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Combined with the state’s distance from both sides’ capitals, this misguided impression paints Missouri as an insignificant player in the nation’s struggle...
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Race and Meaning

The African American Experience in Missouri

by Gary R. Kremer
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014

No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of his best articles on the subject are available in one place with the publication of Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Missouri....
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Missouri at Sea

Warships with Show-Me State Names

by Richard E. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004

Although the state of Missouri is located hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, ships with Missouri names and connections have served the United States for decades. In Missouri at Sea, Richard Schroeder tells about the ships that were named after the state, its cities, and its favorite sons and...
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by Richard Fulton, Jerry Brekke
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010

In the study of American government, analysis of state governments is often neglected in favor of concentration on the national system. Certainly in-depth knowledge of our country’s constitutional structure is critical to an understanding of American government, but this continuing inattention to...
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A Creed for My Profession

Walter Williams, Journalist to the World

by Ronald T. Farrar
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

This superb biography provides for the first time a candid look at the remarkable life of Walter Williams, the man who founded the world's first school of journalism and perhaps contributed more toward the promotion of professional journalism than any other person of his time. Williams, the...
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A Missouri Railroad Pioneer

The Life of Louis Houck

by Joel P. Rhodes
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,...
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Price's Lost Campaign

The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

by Mark A. Lause
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

  In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price’s Raid was the common name for the Missouri campaign led by General Sterling Price. Involving...
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by H. Dwight Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008

Missouri has been likened to a “cave factory” because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns, and the state boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes, lengths, and shapes. Dwight Weaver has been fascinated by Missouri’s caves...
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by Robert L. Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013

The Civil War in Missouri was a time of great confusion, violence, and destruction. Although several major battles were fought in the state between Confederate and Union forces, much of the fighting in Missouri was an ugly form of terrorism carried out by loose bands of Missouri guerrillas, by Kansas...
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by Mary Collins Barile
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010

For nineteenth-century travelers, the Santa Fe Trail was an indispensable route stretching from Missouri to New Mexico and beyond, and the section called “The Missouri Trail”—from St. Louis to Westport—offered migrating Americans their first sense of the West with its promise of adventure....
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From Missouri

An American Farmer Looks Back

by Thad Snow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

After years of subjecting the editors of St. Louis newspapers to eloquent letters on subjects as diverse as floods, tariffs, and mules, Thad Snow published his memoir From Missouri in his mid-seventies in 1954. He was barely retired from farming for more than half a century, mostly in the Missouri...
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by Carl H. Chapman, Eleanor F. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014

This expanded edition of Indians and Archaeology of Missouri gives an excellent introduction to the cultural development of Missouri’s Indians during the past twelve thousand years. Providing a new chapter on the Hunter Foragers of the Dalton period and substantial revision of other chapters to...
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