Tales From Missouri And The Heartland

Author : Ross Malone
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449097162
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from Missouri and the Heartland written by Ross Malone and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These one hundred short stories are inspirational, humorous, and interesting for students or anyone interested in the people and events that figured in the life of Missouri, the Mother of the West. Learn things you didn't know about Jesse James, Walt Disney, Kit Carson, Bald Knobers, Ozarkers and prairie folks who gave us what we enjoy today. American Exceptionalism is proudly and laughingly on display in the pages of Tales From Missouri and the Heartland. This is a great gift for students, teachers, former Midwesterners, people in the military or travelers who enjoy light reading in the airport or on the plane. Every story is bound to make them think of another story just as good.

Author : Virginia Publishing Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891442643
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from Missouri and the Heartland written by Virginia Publishing Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara J. Miner
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595588647
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from the Heartland written by Barbara J. Miner and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Miner’s story of Milwaukee is filled with memorable characters . . . explores with consummate skill the dynamics of race, politics, and schools in our time.” —Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work Weaving together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of a city’s fall from grace—and its chance for redemption in the twenty-first century. A symbol of middle American working-class values, Wisconsin—and in particular urban Milwaukee—has been at the forefront of a half century of public education experiments, from desegregation and “school choice” to vouchers and charter schools. This book offers a sweeping narrative portrait of an all-American city at the epicenter of public education reform, and an exploration of larger issues of race and class in our democracy. The author, a former Milwaukee Journal reporter whose daughters went through the public school system, explores the intricate ways that jobs, housing, and schools intersect, underscoring the intrinsic link between the future of public schools and the dreams and hopes of democracy in a multicultural society. “A social history with the pulse and pace of a carefully crafted novel and a Dickensian cast of unforgettable characters. With the eye of an ethnographer, the instincts of a beat reporter, and the heart of a devoted mother and citizen activist, Miner has created a compelling portrait of a city, a time, and a people on the edge. This is essential reading.” —Bill Ayers, author of Teaching Toward Freedom “Eloquently captures the narratives of schoolchildren, parents, and teachers.” —Library Journal

Author : Robert Turek
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History in the Heartland Volume 2 written by Robert Turek and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore 30+ Little Known Stories of Missouri History! Did You Know? The World's Largest Mosaic Collection is in Missouri? One Major Religion believes the Garden of Eden is in Missouri? A UFO Crashed in Cape Girardeau years before Roswell? John the Baptist's Finger Bone is in a Missouri Museum? These and many more stories of Missouri's past are explored in History in the Heartland Missouri Stories!

Author : Beth Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Heartland written by Beth Scott and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096878
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midwest Maize written by Cynthia Clampitt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.

Author : Peter A. Hansen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062373
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossroads of a Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.

Author : Gerald Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rats of Plainville written by Gerald Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rats of Plainville: Tales from the Heartland is a collection of fictional short stories which take place in the areas around the Mississippi River, between St. Louis, Missouri and Davenport, Iowa. The author worked on a long-term contract in the Heartland and found time to wander the highways, bi-ways, and back roads of Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. The sixteen stories are filled with humor, and chronical the lives and situations of people and places found while traveling. Stories include tales of farmers who confront giant rats eating their crop, a sinkhole disaster that killed twelve people, a hitchhiker who finds a lost parrot who speaks impeccable English, and two old friends who test their friendship with leaf blowers. Other stories tell of love and loss for a rising Country and Western star, a town corrupted by a traveling snake oil salesman, and a small town reporter caught up in the biggest drug crime in Southern Illinois history. The author creates believable characters, and several of his characters weave their way through the stories. One character, Chris Jonson, is a retired reporter who feeds the author with content for many of the stories. In addition to twelve tales of fiction, the author takes your through the Heartland in four true stories of the road. The stories take the author down small lanes and dirt roads as he wanders between Hannibal, Missouri and Davenport, Iowa. All stories, both fiction and fact, take place in real places in the Heartland.

Author : Robert Turek
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History in the Heartland Volume 3 written by Robert Turek and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Little Known Stories of Iowa History! Captivating Little Known True Stories are sure to Entertain. The book may just inspire Your next Road Trip! Did You Know? The World's Largest Grotto is in Iowa? One Major Religion believes there is a Lost Sacred City in Iowa? German POW's Created a Nativity Scene You can Visit today? The 1st Train Heist of the West occured in Iowa? These and many more stories of Missouri's past are explored in History in the Heartland Volume 3: Iowa Stories!

Author : Josh Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493040073
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missouri Myths and Legends written by Josh Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Mysteries of Missouri dispels any notion that the Show Me State is a boring place harboring little unknown. Thirteen diverse chapters, each a story unto itself, probe dark secrets, unexplained phenomena, legendary individuals and actual events which leave people incredulous to this day. Much in this well-researched book has been largely forgotten, but the author's lively and amusing style will awaken curiosity in lifelong residents and armchair visitors alike