A Store Almost In Sight

Author : Jeff Bremer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382471
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Store Almost in Sight written by Jeff Bremer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Store Almost in Sight tells the story of commercial development in central Missouri from the early days of American settlement following the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War. Focusing on those counties near or on the Missouri River, historian Jeff Bremer confirms that the history of the frontier is also the history of the spread of capitalist values. The letters, journals, diaries, and travel accounts of Missouri settlers and visitors reveal how small decisions made by Missouri’s rural white settlers—ranging from how much of a certain crop to plant to how many eggs to take to the local store—contributed to the establishment of a market economy in the state. Most Missourians welcomed the opportunity to take part in commercial markets. Farmwomen sold eggs or butter to peddlers and in nearby towns, while men took surplus corn or pork to stores for credit. Immigrants searched for the most fertile land closest to waterways, to ensure they would have large harvests and an easy way to ship them to market. Families floated farm goods downriver until steamboats transformed rural life by drastically reducing the cost of transportation and boosting farm production and consumption. Traders also trekked west across the plains to trade at the inland entrepôt of Santa Fe. The waves of migrants headed for Oregon and California in the 1840s and 1850s further encouraged commercial development. However, most white settlers lacked the necessary financial means to be capitalists in a technical sense, seeking instead a “competency,” or comfortable independence. This fresh reinterpretation of the American frontier will interest anyone who wants to understand the economic and social significance of westward migration in U.S. history. It gives the reader a gritty, grassroots sense of how ordinary people made their livings and built communities in the lands newly opened to American settlement.

Author : Valerie Battle Kienzle
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681061848
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's With St. Louis? Second Edition written by Valerie Battle Kienzle and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are turtles incorporated into the wrought iron fence at The Old Court House? Can beaver be eaten during Lent? Why are pieces of metal track imbedded in some local streets? Who is Sweet Meat, and should he be avoided? These and other questions about St. Louis routinely perplex both natives and newcomers to the area. In this updated version of her 2016 book, author Valerie Battle Kienzle continues her quest to find answers to some of The Gateway City’s most puzzling questions, digging through countless archives and talking to local experts. Part cultural study of The River City and part history lesson, the book reveals the backstories of more local places, events, and beloved traditions. Want to know why St. Louisans are so obsessed with soccer or why the acclaimed Missouri Botanical Garden contains a Japanese garden? Look no further. Dig into this informative and entertaining update for answers to those and dozens of other questions.

Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050606
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1 written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.

Author : Lyell D., Jr. Henry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384229
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jefferson Highway written by Lyell D., Jr. Henry and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated long-distance travel. Then, the roads confronting would-be motorists were not merely bad, they were abysmal, generally accounted to be the worst of those of all the industrialized nations. The plight of the rapidly rising numbers of early motorists soon spawned a “good roads” movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named auto trails across the length and breadth of the nation. Full of a can-do optimism, these early partisans of motoring sought to link together existing roads and then make them fit for automobile driving—blazing, marking, grading, draining, bridging, and paving them. The most famous of these named highways was the Lincoln Highway between New York City and San Francisco. By early 1916, a proposed counterpart coursing north and south from Winnipeg to New Orleans had also been laid out. Called the Jefferson Highway, it eventually followed several routes through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Jefferson Highway, the first book on this pioneering road, covers its origin, history, and significance, as well as its eventual fading from most memories following the replacement of names by numbers on long-distance highways after 1926. Saluting one of the most important of the early named highways on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, historian Lyell D. Henry Jr. contributes to the growing literature on the earliest days of road-building and long-distance motoring in the United States. For readers who might also want to drive the original route of the Jefferson Highway, three chapters trace that route through Iowa, pointing out many vintage features of the roadside along the way. The perfect book for a summer road trip!

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Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timehri written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports and proceedings of the society are included in each volume.

Author : Frederick E. Shearer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Tourist written by Frederick E. Shearer and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1364 pages
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Download or read book Office Appliances; The Magazine of Office Equipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Vincent
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of the White Elephant Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia by Frank Vincent written by Frank Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry T. Williams
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Tourist written by Henry T. Williams and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1877 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: