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Missouri Historical Review

The Missouri Historical Review, an award-winning scholarly quarterly, has served as the cornerstone of the Society's publication program since 1906. This richly illustrated journal features recent scholarship on all facets of the state's history. The Missouri Historical Review also contains reviews of and notes on recently published books about the history of the state and local areas and the lives of Missourians.

January 2010 (Vol. 104, No. 2)

Feature Articles
Jenny Lind Comes to Missouri
By Harlan Jennings
63
The Political Education of Joseph Pulitzer
By James McGrath Morris
78
The FBI’s “Strawman”: Breaking the Kansas City Mob’s Connection to Las Vegas
By Kenneth J. Peak and William N. Ouseley
95
From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Rolla
Colonel Jay Torrey, Fruitville Farms, and the Village of Torreytown
By John F. Bradbury
115
Book Reviews
119
A President, a Church, and Trails West: Competing Histories in Independence, Missouri
By Jon E. Taylor
Reviewed by Daniel D. Holt
Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature’s Highway, 1819-1935
By William E. Lass
Reviewed by Diana L. Ahmad
A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck
By Joel P. Rhodes
Reviewed by H. Riley Bock

The Missouri Historical Review is a benefit of membership in The State Historical Society of Missouri.

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