Author: Loren Humphrey
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: missouri, readers, series, heritage, medicine, quarantine, quinine, years
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0826212697
ISBN-13: 9780826212696
Presenting an overview of medicine in Missouri from the early days of the epidemics to present-day technological advances, this work approaches the history of medicine as an integral part of the state’s development. The text is organized chronologically in 50-year segments.
Author: Doris Land Mueller
Publisher: University Of Missouri
Keywords: missouri, heritage, readers, sisters, remarkable, different, daring, owen
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2010-09-20
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0826218970
ISBN-13: 9780826218971
In the 1800s, American women were largely restricted to the private sphere. Most had no choice but to spend their lives in the home, marrying in their teens and living only as wives, mothers, and pillars of domesticity. Even as the womens movement came along midcentury, it focused more on gaining legal and political rights for women than on expanding their career opportunities. So in that time period, in which the options and expectations for womens professional lives were so limited, it is remarkable that three sisters born in the 1850s, the Owen daughters of Missouri, all achieved success
Authors:Ilene Stone, Suzanna M. Grenz,
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: missouri, heritage, readers, trailblazer, jessie, fremont, benton
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0826216285
ISBN-13: 9780826216281
When Senator Thomas Hart Benton, one of Missouri’s first two senators, was expecting his second child in 1824, he hoped it would be a boy. Although he was graced instead with a girl, he named her Jessie and raised her more like a son than a nineteenth-century daughter. Senator Benton was the main influence in her life until 1841, when, at the age of seventeen, she married army explorer John Charles Fremont against her parents’ wishes. Some degree of reconciliation occurred later, when Senator Benton promoted Fremont’s famous explorations of the Great West. Jessie remained in
Authors:James Strait, Mark Moran, Mark Sceurma,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: missouri, legends, secrets, local, guide, travel, weird
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1402745559
ISBN-13: 9781402745553
GET WEIRD!Best Travel Series of The Year 2006Booklist Whats weird around here? Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman asked themselves this question for years. And its precisely this offbeat sense of curiosity that led the duo to create Weird N.J. and the successful series that followed. The NOT shockingly result? Every Weird book has become a best seller in its region! ((Series Sales Points)) This best-selling series has sold more than one million copiesand counting Thirty volumes of the Weird series have been published to great success since Weird New Jersey’s 2003 debut
Author: Patricia K. Kummer
Publisher: Capstone Pr Inc
Keywords: missouri
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0736889191
ISBN-13: 9780736889193
Using the latest census data, these books are a relevant and important resource. All of the facts and figures readers need are organized in a straightforward design.
Author: Rita Ladoux
Publisher: Lerner Publicatio
Keywords: usa, missouri
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0822541408
ISBN-13: 9780822541400
Introduces the geography, history, people, industries, and other hightlights of Missouri.
Author: Jon Sharpe
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: manhunt, missouri, trailsman
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-02
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0451222822
ISBN-13: 9780451222824
Skye Fargo-s just stopping through Springfield, Missouri, when he makes the acquaintance of the comely Lucille Sparks-a civilized girl who-s had her fill of the frontier. But when she takes the stage out of town, a local gang of lowlifes led by Mad Dog Terrell swoop in and kidnap her. Now, as part of a rag-tag posse, the Trailsman is going to teach Mad Dog some new tricks-like playing dead.
