Introduction to a Survey of Missouri Place-names
Introduction to a Survey of Missouri Place-names

Author: Robert Lee Ramsay

Publisher: Missouri University The University of Missouri studies; a quarterly of research ... vol. ix, no. 1

Published: 1934

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13:

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"The present volume is intended as an interim report of the study of Missouri place-names which has been carried on by students in the English department of the Graduate School of the University of Missouri for the past six years ... An account of the inception and progress of the undertaking is given first. This is followed by a copy of the detailed directions which are put in the hands of our workers. Next are given some specimens of Missouri names that present problems of peculiar interest and difficulty. Then comes a general bibliography of our library sources, compiled by Mr. Allen Walker Read. Finally, as a specimen of the actual work accomplished ... Pike County"--Preface

Billy the Kid and Jesse James
Billy the Kid and Jesse James

Author: Bill Markley

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-09-27

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1493038397

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Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on those questions and more in this thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives.