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A Successful Gamble

by Bob Priddy on July 31, 2007

in Across Our Wide Missouri

When the Convention of 99 declared all state executive offices vacant in 1861, booting Governor Jackson out of a job, convention members turned to a 64-year-old retired chief judge of the state supreme court who had moved to Pennsylvania, partly so his children could get a better education than they could get in Missouri.  He provided the needed steadying hand.

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A Brush With Disaster

by Bob Priddy 07/30/07 10:52 AM

The strike began in the East and spread gradually westward.  When it reached St. Louis, it stopped almost all the trains.  The strikers were parading, speech-making, demonstrating, and doing a little – but not much – threatening in an effort to get more support.  Then the infantry showed up and tensions increased.
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Hardin College

by Bob Priddy 07/29/07 10:50 AM

Three buildings, remnants of a college campus, still stand in Mexico.  One of them is a monument to the failure of the college, but the institution’s name is a monument to the success of a man who was virtually a noncitizen for a number  of years, then came back to be governor.  Charles Henry Hardin [...]

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The Death of Mr. Howard

by Bob Priddy 07/28/07 10:48 AM

The three men were in the living room of the small home talking about their next business venture, some dealings with a bank in nearby Platte City.  One spotted a picture hanging crooked on a wall and got up to straighten it .  When he stepped onto a chair, one of the others drew a [...]

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Thunder Canoe

by Bob Priddy 07/27/07 10:46 AM

The large crowd gathered at the St. Louis riverfront included several Indians.  Indians roamed in and out of town in those days, trading with the white men who kept headquarters there.  The crowd wanted to see the latest in river transportation.  When it arrived, smoke rolling out of its single stack, furnaces glaring, uncovered paddlewheels [...]

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