Contents
Introduction
Trader William Gilliss and Delaware Migration in Southern Missouri - Lynn Morrow
Slave Labor at the Maramec Iron Works, 1828–1850 - Barbara L. Green
“Good Water and Wood but the Country Is a Miserable Botch” : Flatland Soldiers Confront the Ozarks - John F. Bradbury Jr.
The Race of Improvement: Springfield Society, 1865–1881 - Charles K. Piehl
“The City Belongs to the Local Unions” : The Rise of the Springfield Labor Movement, 1871–1912- Stephen L. McIntyre
The Ozark Short Line Railroad: A Failed Dream - H. Ro ger Grant
Before Bass Pro: St. Louis Sporting Clubs on the Gasconade River - Lynn Morrow
Whose Forest Is This? : Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Ozarks - David Benac
Under Penalty of Death: Pierce City’s Night of Racial Terror - Jason Navarro
“Our Company Feels that the Ozarks are a Good Investment” : The Pierce Pennant Tavern System - Keith A. Sculle
Lake Placid: “A Recreational Center for Colored People in the Missouri Ozarks” - Gary R. Kremer and Evan P. Orr
Reflections on Public Welfare in Washington County, Missouri, 1939–1941- Clarence R. Keathley
Agricultural Change in the Western Ozarks - Milton D. Rafferty
The Origin and Development of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Project - Stephen N. Limbaugh
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index