Missouri: Crossroads of the Nation
- ISBN-10
- 1892724367
- ISBN-13
- 9781892724366
- Series
- Missouri
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 263
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Amer Historical Press
- Authors
- Charles Phillips, Betty Burnett
Description
The authors chronicle, with lively, stirring prose, the home state of Twain and Truman, ragtime and renegades, Dred Scott and the Pendergast machine. More than 400 vintage photos, maps, and illustrations illuminate the text.
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- 2020-05
- 200 pages
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- Reedy Press
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