Author : Robbi Courtaway
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781891442186
From downtown St. Louis to rural Missouri, conjures another batch of spine-tingling stories.
Author : Charles A. Lindbergh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2003-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743237055
Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1541646061
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
Author : Benjamin Barrett
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781614685081
Author : Zachary Kent
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780766016835
A biography of the American aviator, with an emphasis on the preparation for and details of his solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris in the Spirit of Saint Louis in 1927.
Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0062078569
No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local boosters raised $20,000 to start a professional ball club, and the honeymoon still isn't over. Now Peter Golenbock, the bestselling author and master of baseball oral history, has written another remarkable saga enriched by extensive and incomparable remembrances from the scores of players, managers, and executives who lived it. These pages capture the voices of Branch Rickey on George Sisler. Rogers Hornsby and his creation of the farm system. Hornsby on Grover Cleveland Alexander -- and Alexander on Hornsby. Dizzy Dean on -- who else? -- Dizzy Dean. And so many others including "The Man" himself, Stan Musial; Eldon Auker, Ellis Clary, Denny Galehouse, and Don Gutteridge on the 1940s Browns; Brooks Lawrence, the second man to cross the Cardinals' color line; Jim Bronsnan, the first man to break the players' "code of silence"; Tommy Herr, Darrell Porter, and Joe McGrane on Whitey Herzog's Cardinals; and Cardinal owner Bill DeWitt, Jr., on the team today.
Author : Valerie Battle Kienzle
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1681061848
Why are turtles incorporated into the wrought iron fence at The Old Court House? Can beaver be eaten during Lent? Why are pieces of metal track imbedded in some local streets? Who is Sweet Meat, and should he be avoided? These and other questions about St. Louis routinely perplex both natives and newcomers to the area. In this updated version of her 2016 book, author Valerie Battle Kienzle continues her quest to find answers to some of The Gateway City’s most puzzling questions, digging through countless archives and talking to local experts. Part cultural study of The River City and part history lesson, the book reveals the backstories of more local places, events, and beloved traditions. Want to know why St. Louisans are so obsessed with soccer or why the acclaimed Missouri Botanical Garden contains a Japanese garden? Look no further. Dig into this informative and entertaining update for answers to those and dozens of other questions.
Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 6793 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0310294142
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Author : Bryan W. Alaspa
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780764326882
St. Louis is a modern metropolis still rich with legends dating back to the early Native Americans, and a history that lives on through many spirits that refuse to die. - Visit the infamous Lemp Mansion and discover its scandalous history; a tragic tale of a wealthy family plagued by multiple suicides, madness, depression, and public ridicule. - Read about the Gehm House, if you dare, where footsteps fall where no man walks and visitors are attacked as they sleep. - Learn about Building 28 at the haunted Jefferson Barracks. - See spirits of children floating on the lawn of the haunted Rock House. - And don't forget to peer back into the past to see the ghost-infested McDowell Medical College! A ghost-lovers paradise, these and other tales will haunt you.
Author : Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0252096878
Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
