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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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The History of Jackson County, Missouri
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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History of Jackson County, Missouri
Author: W. Z. Hickman
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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The History of Jackson County, Missouri
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Category : Jackson County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Hidden History of Jackson County, Michigan
Author: Linda Hass
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467145785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The history of Jackson County, Michigan, brims with colorful characters and noteworthy episodes nearly lost to time. Jackson abolitionists used their barns, houses and hidden compartments to harbor freedom seekers traveling on the Underground Railroad. One even repelled an armed posse from Kentucky. A prominent druggist murdered his mother in 1889 and a jail guard in 1893.Evidence suggests he murdered his father too. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to Brown's Lake for relaxation in 1935, but a media mob had other plans. A popular Blackman Township roadhouse has a longstanding tradition of entertaining pioneers, stagecoach drivers and mobsters, but its secret guests are even stranger. Join local historian Linda Hass as she delves into these and other entertaining and often-overlooked stories.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467145785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The history of Jackson County, Michigan, brims with colorful characters and noteworthy episodes nearly lost to time. Jackson abolitionists used their barns, houses and hidden compartments to harbor freedom seekers traveling on the Underground Railroad. One even repelled an armed posse from Kentucky. A prominent druggist murdered his mother in 1889 and a jail guard in 1893.Evidence suggests he murdered his father too. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to Brown's Lake for relaxation in 1935, but a media mob had other plans. A popular Blackman Township roadhouse has a longstanding tradition of entertaining pioneers, stagecoach drivers and mobsters, but its secret guests are even stranger. Join local historian Linda Hass as she delves into these and other entertaining and often-overlooked stories.
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
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Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
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Official Manual of the State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
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The "manuscript Found"
Author: Solomon Spaulding
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri
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Category : Clay County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Category : Clay County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Wide-Open Town
Author: Diane Mutti Burke
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city’s complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be “wide open.” Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this “openness” also allowed many of the city’s residents to challenge conventional social boundaries—and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city—among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of “LGBT.” Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City—and how the city responded—this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city’s complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be “wide open.” Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this “openness” also allowed many of the city’s residents to challenge conventional social boundaries—and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city—among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of “LGBT.” Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City—and how the city responded—this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America.
Cinders and Silence
Author: Tom A. Rafiner
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ISBN: 9780984678266
Category : Cass County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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ISBN: 9780984678266
Category : Cass County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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