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Missouri Civil War Reader, Volume I - now available Cost per CD ROM is $24.95 + $4.00 priority mail shipping
The Crisis by Winston Churchill, 1901 St. Louis native Winston Churchill was born in 1871, three years before that other fellow with the same name that the Brits are so proud of. The Crisis, based on his own family’s experiences in St. Louis during the war, is considered by some to be one of the greatest American novels ever written. Readers of Galusha Anderson’s “Border City” will recognize many of the incidents and situations that take place in this book, but as a novel The Crisis is free to focus more on the stresses and fractures of human relations during a very difficult time in the history of St. Louis. other Churchill titles from ABEBOOKS
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Excerpt from "The Crisis":
Missouri Civil War Reader, Volume I - now available Cost per CD ROM is $24.95 + $4.00 priority mail shipping
CHAPTER XVII CAMP JACKSON What enthusiasm on that gusty Monday morning, the
Sixth of May, 1861! Twelfth Street to the north of the Market House is
full three hundred feet across, and the militia of the Sovereign State of
Missouri is gathering there. Thence by order of her Governor they are to
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by Joe W. Smith Civil War in the Ozarks available from McCleery & Sons Publishing
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Burn, Missouri, Burn
by the same author: Kansas,
Bloody Kansas Ride, Rebels, Ride try
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Terror at the Door: A Story of the Missouri-Kansas Border Conflict,
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Other Missouri Authors These are fiction authors from Missouri. Though they do not necessarily write about the Civil War in Missouri, the conflict's impact and influence can be seen in a number of their works |
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| Robert A. Heinlein Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri in 1907. Butler is in Bates County, one of the Missouri counties forcibly depopulated by the infamous Order 11. The Civil War took place during his grandparent's generation and he would have been surrounded by the stories and the war's influence throughout his youth. Couple with this, Heinlein was a US Navy officer who, due to illness, spent some time in US military hospitals, very probably with some aging ex-Civil War soldiers. In Heinlein's science fiction novels, the influence of Missouri's Civil War history can be seen. Slavery and its impact, the sense of being in an occupied nation, the secret societies and underground/guerrilla war... all are things mirrored in his stories. |
Heinlein novels:
Heinlein's strongest novel about slavery. The story of a young boy, Thorby, who is a slave on a distant planet. The novel is intended for juveniles but is an excellent read for all ages.
The story of the 2nd American Revolution in the year 2100. This story
will put you in mind of the secret war for Missouri with the secret
societies and sense of being in an occupied country--occupied by fellow
Americans--right in your own homeland.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Her roaming pioneer family lived in Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota. She was a child in Kansas, at the edge of Indian Territory, when the notorious Bender family was murdering travelers who stopped at their tavern. Pa Ingalls was one of those who rode out with the vigilantes to deal with the Benders. In DeSmet, South Dakota (then Dakota Territory) their church's preacher was a cousin of abolitionist John Brown and, Laura said, looked a great deal like him. After her marriage in Dakota Territory, and hard years there, Laura and her husband Almanzo Wilder moved to Mansfield, Missouri in the Ozarks where they remained the rest of their lives. It was in Missouri that Laura wrote her series of children's books that have become perpetual favorites. Laura's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, after roaming much of her life, also settled down in Missouri to write. More on Laura Ingalls Wilder, with pictures of her Mansfield, Missouri home |
Laura Ingalls Wilder novels: Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
This is Laura's diary account of their trip from DeSmet, South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri in a covered wagon and their early days finding and settling at Rocky Ridge farm.
The Rose Series-following Rose's life at the turn of the century, set in Mansfield, Missouri
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Loula Grace Erdman
Loula Grace Erdman was born in Lafayette County, Missouri around the turn of the century. Her mother's maiden name was "Maddox," a familiar name to those acquainted with western Missouri Civil War history. Many of her books are set in Missouri. Loula Grace Erdman writes beautiful stories in a clear, simple style. Among her books that touch on the Civil War are "Many a Voyage" which tells the story of the wife of Edmund Ross. Ross was the Republican abolitionist who, after the war, cast the deciding vote in President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial. Ross's wife and children were in Lawrence, Kansas during Quantrill's raid--Ross was away in Washington, DC. "Save Weeping for the Night" is the story of Bettie Shelby, the wife of Confederate General Jo Shelby. And "Another Spring" is about Order 11. |
Unfortunately, almost all books by Loula Grace Erdman
are out of print. Copies are available used from
ABEBOOKS.
Many A Voyage (Civil War novel of the wife of Edmund Ross) Save Weeping for the Night (Civil War novel of Bettie Shelby, wife of General Jo Shelby) Another Spring (Civil War novel about the Order 11 forced relocations in western Missouri) Life Was Simpler Then (about life in a small Missouri town) |
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