Down The Wire Road In The Missouri Ozarks

Author : Fern Angus
Publisher : Fern Angus
ISBN 13 : 9780963791306
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down the Wire Road in the Missouri Ozarks written by Fern Angus and published by Fern Angus. This book was released on 1992 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vol. is primarily concerned with southwest Missouri counties; especially Stone County.

Author : Kenneth E. Burchett
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469595
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Carthage, Missouri written by Kenneth E. Burchett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Carthage, Missouri, was the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War. Governor Claiborne Jackson's rebel Missouri State Guard made its way toward southwest Missouri near where Confederate volunteers collected in Arkansas, while Colonel Franz Sigel's Union force occupied Springfield with orders to intercept and block the rebels from reaching the Confederates. The two armies collided near Carthage on July 5, 1861. The battle lasted for ten hours, spread over several miles, and included six separate engagements before the Union army withdrew under the cover of darkness. The New York Times called it "the first serious conflict between the United States troops and the rebels." This book describes the events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and the aftermath.

Author : William Garrett Piston
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855751
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilson's Creek written by William Garrett Piston and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Mi

Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051599
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2 written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and west, North and South, frontier and civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against neighbor, unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865. The second volume of Brooks Blevins's history begins with the region's distinctive relationship to slavery. Largely unsuitable for plantation farming, the Ozarks used enslaved persons on a smaller scale or, in some places, not at all. Blevins moves on to the devastating Civil War years where the dehumanizing, personal nature of Ozark conflict was made uglier by the predations of marching armies and criminal gangs. Blending personal stories with a wide narrative scope, he examines how civilians and soldiers alike experienced the war, from brutal partisan warfare to ill-advised refugee policies to women's struggles to safeguard farms and stay alive in an atmosphere of constant danger. The war stunted the region's growth, delaying the development of Ozarks society and the processes of physical, economic, and social reconstruction. More and more, striving uplanders dedicated to modernization fought an image of the Ozarks as a land of mountaineers and hillbillies hostile to the idea of progress. Yet the dawn of the twentieth century saw the uplands emerge as an increasingly uniform culture forged, for better and worse, in the tumult of a conflicted era.

Author : Quinta Scott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133836
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along Route 66 written by Quinta Scott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the way out. Invented on the cusp of the depression, Route 66 was the road out of the mines, off the farm, away from troubled Main Street. It was the road to opportunity. Between 1926 and 1956, many people from the southern and plains states trekked west to California on Route 66, the Mother Road. Some never reached California. Instead, they settled along the road, building restaurants, tourist attractions, gas stations, and motels. The architecture of each structure reflected regional building traditions and the difficulties of the times. The designs of buildings and signs served as invitations for passing travelers to stop, fill their tanks, have a bite, and stay the night. Along Route 66 describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built them, lived in them, and made a living from them. With striking black-and-white images and unforgettable oral histories of this rapidly disappearing architecture, Quinta Scott has docomented the culture of America’s most famous road.

Author : Paulette Jiles
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061741698
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemy Women written by Paulette Jiles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom. Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.

Author : Francis Asbury Sampson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph A. Lawrence
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456764071
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The McConnel and McConnell Families written by Ralph A. Lawrence and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With extensive data provided by many family members."

Author : William R. Brooksher
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Hill written by William R. Brooksher and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative about Wilson's Creek starts with the backdrop of issues -- from abolition to succession -- in Missouri preceding the Civil War and continues to cover early war issues, such as the search for the Swamp Fox and Battle of Boonville, before cumulating with the Battle of Wilson's Creek and its sub-battle at Bloody Hill.

Author : James R. Knight
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233578
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks written by James R. Knight and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After months of reverses, the Union army was going on the offensive in the spring of 1862 as General McClellan prepared for his Peninsula Campaign. In Tennessee, General Grant had just captured Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson; and in southwestern Missouri, Gen. Samuel R. Curtis had driven Sterling Price and his Missouri State Guard out of the state and into the arms of General Ben McCulloch's Confederate army in northwestern Arkansas. Using the united armies of Price and McCulloch, the new Confederate department commander, Earl Van Dorn, struck back at Curtis' Federal army which was now outnumbered and two hundred miles from its supply base. For two days in early March 1862, the armies of Van Dorn and Curtis fought in the wilds of the Ozark Mountains at a place called Pea Ridge. Control of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri for the rest of the war hung on the outcome.