Official Manual of the State of Missouri
Author : Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Executive departments
ISBN :
Author : Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Executive departments
ISBN :
Author : James Strait
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402745553
Each fun and intriguing volume in the award-winning series offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture: the oddball curiosities, ghostly sites, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Author : Susan Flader
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 9780826208347
Features an account of the evolution of Missouri's park system and essays on each of the state's historic sites and parks.
Author : Judy Young
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1585367591
Ross & Judy Young's combined belief that children comprehend intricate ideas at a very young age made it possible for them to seamlessly create "S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet." The husband and wife team elegantly synthesize text and illustration to provide a rich texture of the Show Me State. The alphabet book employs a two-tiered approach that reaches Pre-K through 6th grade students. A rhyme for each letter of the alphabet catches the attention of younger readers, while older elementary students grasp a richer understanding of the topic by reading expository information on the same page.
Author :
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1423633954
Author : New York (State).
Publisher :
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Bob Priddy
Publisher : University of Missouri
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826219213
After fire destroyed Missouri's capitol in 1911, voters approved a bond issue to construct a new statehouse. The tax to pay the bonds produced a one-million-dollar surplus, leaving a vast amount of money to decorate the new building. A special commission of art-minded Missourians employed some of the nation's leading painters and sculptors to create powerful and often huge pieces of art to adorn Missouri's most important new structure. The art of the Missouri capitol was considered among the finest to adorn any state capitol. But the passage of time has lessened recognition of the pieces and their creators. Most people--even those daily wandering the marble halls--have little knowledge of the significance of the art and the history it portrays. Bob Priddy and Jeffrey Ball return the capitol's decorations to prominence in The Art of the Missouri Capitol: History in Canvas, Bronze, and Stone. The book tells the many stories behind the art: the rigors of its creation, the political roadblocks that endangered the decoration program, and the triumph of the commissioners who devoted more than ten years to the project. The Art of the Missouri Capitol presents the art in 270 images, many by Lloyd Grotjan, mostly of the building's many compelling paintings, murals, and sculptures. Priddy, a journalist who has covered the Missouri legislature for more than three decades, and Ball, an art historian, use a wealth of historical materials to connect the grand design of the capitol decorations with accounts of sometimes temperamental artists and meddling politicians. The authors provide historical and artistic context to explain the many surprising, controversial choices the artists made, and they use Missouri history to explain the tales depicted in the artwork, revealing the events--and inaccuracies--that the paintings bring to life. The authors honor the Missouri capitol's artistic excellence in a way that will appeal to art enthusiasts and history buffs as well as to general readers. The Art of the Missouri Capitol: History in Canvas, Bronze, and Stone is the definitive account of the art's creation, of the men who produced it, and of the Missourians who lived the history that inspired it.
Author : Robert Pierce Forbes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0807877581
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery. When Congressman James Tallmadge of New York proposed barring slavery from the new state of Missouri, he sparked the most candid discussion of slavery ever held in Congress. The southern response quenched the surge of nationalism and confidence following the War of 1812 and inaugurated a new politics of racism and reaction. The South's rigidity on slavery made it an alluring electoral target for master political strategist Martin Van Buren, who emerged as the key architect of a new Democratic Party explicitly designed to mobilize southern unity and neutralize antislavery sentiment. Forbes's analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War, which was fractured by the controversy over Missouri.
Author : Becky Homan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1461746361
Master gardener Becky Homan explains in clear, user-friendly terms the different gardening conditions in each part of Missouri, so readers can identify which of the widely varying soils, temperature zones, and precipitation levels they are dealing with. These detailed regional descriptions make this book a standout. Gardeners and horticulturists from across the Show Me State contribute hands-on advice for each region, from when to start plants from seed to when to water in drought or where to get soil samples analyzed. This is the must-have garden bible for Missouri residents.
Author : My Nature Book Adventures
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781956162172