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Missouri Secedes

by Bob Priddy on October 31, 2007

in Across Our Wide Missouri

Missouri’s legislature by now was certainly on the run.  At least one of the legislatures was.  Although its members didn’t realize it, this day was the last day the Confederate legislature of Missouri met. Missouri on this day seceded from the Union.

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River Captain

by Bob Priddy 10/30/07 2:57 PM

For many years, Missouri was a state sustained by its river trade.  He who could gain a large share of that trade could gain a sizeable quantity of the wealth which would come from a nation moving west.
Along game a stubborn Irishman named Joseph Kinney.  Some say he invented the stern-wheeler.  Regardless he became a [...]

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Triple Titleist

by Bob Priddy 10/29/07 2:55 PM

His grandfather was a white man who owned the plantation on which he was born.  His grandmother was one of the plantation’s slaves.  His mother was half Cherokee Indian.  He was the eleventh of fifteen children.  His father, a butcher, went to St. Louis to earn money to bring the family north.  When they arrived, [...]

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The Royal

by Bob Priddy 10/28/07 2:53 PM

When the soldiers from Texas returned to their cattle ranches after the Civil War they found their herds had multiplied unchecked during the months they had been away.  The southern markets quickly became overloaded and prices went down, down. So the Texans turned with increasing seriousness to the northern markets and the era of the [...]

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Bloody Bill

by Bob Priddy 10/27/07 2:52 PM

Some persons have become apologists for the James boys, trying to slough off their deeds as reprisals against a society that mistreated them.  Some even rationalize the doings of Quantrill.  But there has never been anyone trying to explain away the actions of one guerrilla leader of Missouri’s Civil War period – William Anderson, known [...]

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