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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.

Current issue:

April 2013 (Vol. 107, No. 3)
Feature Articles
Missouri Historical Review Cover

It Takes More Than Just Ore: Making Iron at Moselle
By Jon F. Bergenthal

 125

Growing the Hills: The Ozarks Regional Commission and the Politics of Economic Development in the Mid-American Highlands,
1960s-1970s
By J. Blake Perkins

 144

Memories of a State Senate Career:
An Oral Interview with Albert M. Spradling Jr.
Interviews by Will Sarvis; Annotations by Lynn Wolf Gentzler

 168

From the Stacks:
   Research Center-Columbia
   Around the World in One Year: Mary Dwight Eaman’s Journey
By Kimberly Harper

 187
Book Reviews
 191

Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union
   By William C. Harris
Reviewed by Stanley Harrold

Gibson’s Last Stand: The Rise, Fall, and Near Misses of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1969-1975
   By Doug Feldmann
Reviewed by Robert Bionaz

Captain Joseph Boyce and the 1st Missouri Infantry, C.S.A.
   Edited by William C. Winter
Reviewed by Kathleen Gorman

Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
   By Robert Gudmestad
Reviewed by Angela Lakwete
Book Notes
196

The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America
By Julie Winch

Missouri Armories: The Guard’s Home in Architecture and History
By Robert P. Wiegers

History of Missouri Bands 1800-2000
By C. Herbert Duncan

Old-Time Fiddling: Hal Sappington, Missouri Fiddler
By R. M. Kinder and Kristine Lowe-Martin

57 Years: A History of the Freedom Suits in the Missouri Courts
By Anthony J. Sestric

Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction
Edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett

The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied. Volume III: September 1833-August 1834
Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha Gallagher

Boone’s Lick Road: A Brief History and Guide to a Missouri Treasure
By Hal Jackson

Herman Jaeger: Newton County’s Master of the Vineyard
By Kay Hively and Larry James

Preserving Local Writers, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials
Edited by Carol Smallwood and Elaine Williams

The Indianization of Lewis and Clark
By William R. Swagerty
Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History, 2012
 199
News in Brief
 201

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

The Missouri Historical Review (ISSN 0026-6582) is published quarterly by The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201-7298. Periodicals postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri.

Questions regarding purchase of individual issues of the current or previous journals may be sent to shsofmo@umsystem.edu