Missouri History Museum Press

Reducere. DescriptionLouis Blanchette came to Les Petites Cotes (the Little Hills) in 1769. The little village, later dubbed San Carlos del Misury by the Spa...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

Reducere. Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State, " but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female ...

Reducere. Missouri has been likened to a "cave factory" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns, and the state b...

Reducere. Echoes of a dynamic history still linger in Springfield, Missouri. The town square was the scene of a Civil War battle, a Wild Bill Hickok shootout...

Reducere. DescriptionCentral Missouri possesses a bounty of history regarding brave men and women who have served both state and nation in the armed forces. ...

Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the reg...

Reducere. Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese sur...

During the Civil War, only Virginia and Tennessee saw more action than Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant first proved his ability there. Sterling Price, a...

Reducere. The Civil War in Missouri was a time of great confusion, violence, and destruction. Although several major battles were fought in the state between...

DescriptionHauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Show Me State Reader, beware Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghos...

Reducere. During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln reviewed thousands of wartime military trials, including several cases featured in this bo...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...

Reducere. DescriptionFollowing victories at Carthage and Wilson's Creek in the summer of 1861, the Confederate-allied Missouri State Guard achieved its great...

Reducere. DescriptionIn early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. In fact, a popularly e...

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a privat...

Reducere. Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizin...

Reducere. In the film version of the life of the "Unsinkable Molly Brown, " she is rescued from the Colorado River and raised in the Rocky Mountains, but the...

Reducere. An accessible look at the world's oldest writing system, covering it's origins, historical development and demise. With new colour photos.

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha...

Every budding young palaeontologist will want to join the hunt to discover the ferocious rulers of the prehistoric world with this exciting interac...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Uppe...

DescriptionOriginally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken b...

Offers an introduction to life in the world's oceans. This title includes 100 re-useable stickers of fish, mammals, amphibians and invertebrates, r...

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha...

Reducere. Explore 44 of the best rail-trails and multiuse pathways across two states. All around the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted t...

This collection of activities for butterfly lovers features coloring, puzzles and more. Bite-size captions on the behavior and habitats of butterfl...

The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literat...

What are dinosaurs? Where did they live? Did they fly? Did they lay eggs, and did any survive?! Tackle all these questions and more and become a fu...