Download or read book Young s History of Lafayette County Missouri written by William Young and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Missouri Counties Towns and Streams Were Named written by David Wolfe Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent Immigrants written by Robert W. Frizzell and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1838 and the early 1890s, German peasant farmers from the Kingdom of Hanover made their way to Lafayette County, Missouri, to form a new community centered on the town of Concordia. Their story has much to tell us about the American immigrant experience--and about how newcomers were caught up in the violence that swept through their adoptive home. Robert Frizzell grew up near Concordia, and in this first book-length history of the German settlement, he chronicles its life and times during those formative years. Founded by Hanoverian Friedrich Dierking--known as "Dierking the Comforter" for the aid he gave his countrymen--the Concordia settlement blossomed from 72 households in 1850 to 375 over the course of twenty years. Frizzell traces that growth as he examines the success of early agricultural efforts, but he also tells how the community strayed from the cultural path set by its freethinker founder to become a center of religious conservatism. Drawing on archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, Frizzell offers a compelling account for scholars and general readers alike, showing how Concordia differed from other German immigrant communities in America. He also explores the conditions in Hanover--particularly the village of Esperke, from which many of the settlers hailed--that caused people to leave, shedding new light on theological, political, and economic circumstances in both the Old World and the New. When the Civil War came, the antislavery Hanoverians found themselves in the Missouri county with the greatest number of slaves, and the Germans supported the Union while most of their neighbors sympathized with Confederate guerrillas. Frizzell tells how the notorious "Bloody Bill" Anderson attacked the community three times, committing atrocities as gruesome as any recorded in the state--then how the community flourished after the war and even bought out the farmsteads of former slaveholders. Frizzell's account challenges many historians' assumptions about German motives for immigration and includes portraits of families and individuals that show the high price in toil and blood required to meet the challenges of making a home in a new land. Independent Immigrants reveals the untold story of these newcomers as it reveals a little-known aspect of the Civil War in Missouri.
Download or read book Portrait and Biographical Record of Lafayette and Saline Counties Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Missouri s Counties County Seats and Courthouse Squares written by Marian M. Ohman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Ray County Mo written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Jackson County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lafayette County History written by Brookhaven Press and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lafayette written by Mary McCosker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todays Lafayette is a modern East Bay suburb with a long and intriguing history of people, agriculture, and commerce. The story began in the summer of 1846, when Elam Brown and 13 families left St. Joseph, Missouri, in wagon trains and embarked on a sixmonth journey west to establish new homes and lives. By February 1848, Brown and his family had purchased the Rancho Acalanes in Contra Costa County from a San Francisco financier and had established the settlement that would later became Lafayette. Gradually Brown sold his land to other settlers, and the community began to grow. Eventually homes, stores, roads, schools, and churches were built. In these pages, the genesis of Lafayette, along with the story of its creators and early residents, is revealed in stirring early imagery.
Download or read book History of Jackson County Missouri written by W. Z. Hickman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rader s Revised History of Missouri From the Earliest Times to the Present written by Perry Scott 1859- [From Old C Rader and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Missouri offers a detailed account of the state's development from pre-colonial times through the 20th century. The book covers important events such as the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and the growth of industry and agriculture. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Missouri and the Midwest. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Official Manual of the State of Missouri written by Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri written by Howard Louis Conard and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Cass County Missouri written by Allen Glenn and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesse James written by T J Stiles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps. In the bloodshed and bitterness that followed the South's surrender at Appomattox, Jesse and his fellow guerillas, with their gunfights and hold-ups, became part of the intensely brutal struggle by the White South against the racial egalitarianism and Federal power fostered by Reconstruction. In the first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years, T. J. Stiles paints a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the American Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath. With groundbreaking scholarship and dazzling reinterpretation, T. J. Stiles has refashioned one of the great legends of American history.
Download or read book Caves of Missouri written by J. Harlen Bretz and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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