Damming the Osage

Damming the Osage
Author: Leland Payton
Publisher: Lens & Pens Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Bagnell Dam (Mo.)
ISBN: 9780967392585

If changed by development, the authors found the present Osage valley landscape expressive. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, period maps, and vintage images, this book tells the dramatic saga of human ambition pitted against natural limitations and forces beyond man's control.

Blood River Rising

Blood River Rising
Author: Victoria Pope Hubbell
Publisher: Iris Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781604542349

The first time the author met eighty-six-year-old Hadley Thompson, he told her about the Thompson-Crismon feud in Missouri in the 1920s. He described his lifelong quest to understand his father's murder. This book describes a collaborative effort between the author and Thompson to investigate why his father was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri

The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
Author: James F. Cherry
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1557288976

In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400–1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used in ceremonies, in everyday life, or exclusively for the sepulcher? Cherry’s decades of research have culminated in the lavishly illustrated The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri, a fascinating, comprehensive catalog of 138 identified classical style headpots and an invaluable resource for understanding the meaning of these remarkable ceramic vessels.

The Plains Across

The Plains Across
Author: John D. Unruh
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252063602

The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.