Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786497351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the innkeeper and the inventor. The westward advance of the trailblazers created demand for a gamut of unsung adventurers--surveyors, financiers, politicians, surgeons, entertainers, grocers and midwives--who built communities and businesses in the wilderness amid clashes with Indians, epidemics, floods, droughts and outlawry. Chronicling the worthy deeds, ethnicities, languages and lifestyles of ordinary people who survived a stirring period in American history, this book provides biographical information for hundreds of individual pioneers on the North American frontier, from the Mississippi River Valley as far west as Alaska. Appendices list pioneers by state or country of departure, destination, ethnicity, religion and occupation. A chronology of pioneer achievements places them in perspective.
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Category : Clay County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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Author: Carrie Polk Johnston
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Category : Caldwell County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309857
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This amazing compilation contains the records of 16,000 marriages from fifty-one Missouri counties formed before 1840. The majority of the marriage records in this work were copied from the original marriage books on file in various county courthouses. Others were copied from previously published compilations; some were copied from both sources. All Missouri counties with marriage records prior to 1840 are covered except St. Louis County and City, which have been adequately covered elsewhere. The marriages listed here are arranged in alphabetical sequence by the surname of the groom. A bride's index at the back of the book contains the names of all 16,000 women mentioned in the marriage records.
Author: Walter Williams
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Author: Robert L. Ramsay
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826205865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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This bulletin is one in a series published by the College of Arts and Science in which pertinent and interesting information that has been collected and analyzed in the research activities of regular departments of the College is made available to the public. The study of Missouri place names has been a project of Professor Robert L. Ramsay of the Department of English for a number of years. He has directed a series of eighteen masters theses in the field, and as a result of the research conducted by his students and through his own activities, a master file of Missouri place names has been prepared. This bulletin is only a sample of the information that has been collected and classified. The College of Arts and Science is making it available to the citizens of the State at a nominal price so that the public can have some knowledge and appreciation of this interesting and worthwhile study. The bulletin records a very significant part of our history and culture.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Author: J. Daniel Orr
Publisher: J.Daniel Orr
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The most complete genealogical study of Arthur Orr the Elder available in a single work. Extensive details of Arthur Orr the Elder's parents and descendants through the author's direct line (Arthur Orr Senior, Ann Ryburn, John Orr, Mary Eakin, Patrick Ryburn Orr, Malinda Johnson, John Jay Hardin Orr, and Alice Lucy Clem) are included. Numerous sources and the earliest records of the family are provided. A progeny, yDNA testing results, plat maps, and several illustrations are also included.
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Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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