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Great River City How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis
ISBN: PB: 9781883982959, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
240 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 151 colour plates, 199 halftone
For St. Louis, the Mississippi has always been more than just a river. It's been the focus of the local economy, a shaping force on millions of lives, and a mirror for the city's triumphs, embarrassments, joys, and tragedies. Through fifty-six snapsh...
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£27,00
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Fire, Pestilence, and Death St. Louis, 1849
ISBN: PB: 9781883982935, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones
In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic...
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£16,00
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Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis
ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones
The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...
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£7,50
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Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery
ISBN: PB: 9781883982867, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, January 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 40 halftones
The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. The book is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, which feature biographies of individuals. Besides...
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£18,50
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It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante
ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps
In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...
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£19,00
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My Dear Molly The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love
ISBN: HB: 9781883982829, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 140 halftones
The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when archivist M. E. Kodner came across the James Love letters, she knew she had discovered something extrao...
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£22,50
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Necessary Evil Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun
ISBN: PB: 9781883982812, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 maps
From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. Situated as the Gateway to the West, Missouri ex...
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£19,00
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Up North St. Louis's Summer Colonies on Lake Huron in the Golden Age of Travel
ISBN: PB: 9781883982744, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, May 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 1 map, 80 halftones
For everyone from school age to professional, there is no greater pleasure than the summer vacation, the chance to pack our suitcases and escape from workaday life and domestic chores; we look forward to it during the long slog and count down the day...
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£18,00
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