Shantyboats and Roustabouts
Shantyboats and Roustabouts

Author: Gregg Andrews

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2022-12-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0807179078

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Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews’s Shantyboats and Roustabouts uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.

The Gateway Arch: An Illustrated Timeline
The Gateway Arch: An Illustrated Timeline

Author: John Guenther

Publisher: Illustrated Timeline

Published: 2023-05-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781681064468

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An icon of Structural Expressionism, the Gateway Arch expresses both a timeless monumentality and a contemporary dynamism. The story of how this monument came to be is remarkable. John Guenther, architect and historian, seeks to "connect the dots" of history and take readers through the key events which led to the building of the Gateway Arch, assisted by historic images. Enjoy a chronological look at the historic foundations of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, starting from the very beginning: when the Louisiana territory was controlled by France. St. Louis's central location has been key to US history, serving as the "Gateway to the West"; it was here that Lewis and Clark began their Corps of Discovery Expedition (1804-1806). Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, St. Louis was a major port in the Golden Age of Steamboating and the origin of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad in 1849 to forge connection between the east and the west coast. Learn how Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch is a powerful and symbolic expression of this westward exploration. The Gateway Arch Timeline explores the planning, growth, and evolution of St. Louis and its riverfront. It reveals the vision, determination, persistence, collaboration, creativity, and innovation on the part of many, as the design and realization of the Gateway Arch continues to evolve over time.

St. Louis Lost
St. Louis Lost

Author: Mary Bartley

Publisher: Virginia Publishing Corporation

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780963144843

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The Riverfront at St. Louis
The Riverfront at St. Louis

Author: John Albury Bryan

Publisher:

Published: 1942

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Typewritten ms. (carbon copy) covers the history of St. Louis beginning with the first settlement.

Abandoned in the Heartland
Abandoned in the Heartland

Author: Jennifer Hamer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0520950178

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Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.

Great River City
Great River City

Author: Andrew Wanko

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883982959

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"This book examines the importance of the Mississippi River across time and through the lens of a single city: St. Louis. Features hundreds of maps, artifacts, and fascinating historic images, spanning back to St. Louis's founding and even earlier"--