Walter Barlow Stevens:
Missouri the Center State; 1821-1915 - new book
ISBN: 9781155092560
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII. MISSOURI GEOGRAPHY. The Center State--Original Boundaries--What Was Embraced Within Them--The Treasure Chest of the Continent--Prophecy of Newton Dwight Hillis--A Slave Peninsula in a Free Soil Sea--The Price of the Platte Purchase--An Interpreter, a Blacksmith, a Grindstone, and $2,500--That Jog Into Arkansas--The Northern Line Controversy Laying Out the Counties--Early Provision for Public Education--Admiration for War Heroes--Political Convictions--State of Pike--The Rush to Platte--Many Changes in Names--How Callaway Got a Court House--County Scat Wars--When Liberty Was Farthest West--Some Lost Cities--Old Chariton Rivaled St. Louis--Disappearance of St. Andrews--Town Site Speculation in the. Early Decades--William Muldrow, Mis-souri''s Foremost Optimist--Marion City the Original of Dickens'' Eden--The Ambition of the Osage Promoters--Springfield''s Start--Kickapoo, the Beautiful--Neosho''s Encircling Springs--The Early Colonies--Some Notable First Settlers--Community Ex-periments--The Fanatical Pilgrims--Liberal''s Motive--The Mennonites--Harmony Mission--Town, River and Prairie Nomenclature--The Indians'' Hidden Fountains of Health. 1 came from the center of the earth.--Bishop Thomas Bowman, of Missouri. To a Boston audience in 1913, Rev. Dr. Newton Dwight Hillis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, said: God built this country like a ship, with the Mississippi for the keel, and the rivers, like the Ohio and the Missouri and their various branches, stretching forth on either side like ribs from the keel; but the center of the ship always is the captain''s treasure chest and in that central spot are assembled all the riches of the cargo. Long ago Mr. Gladstone prophesied that the Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds of the twentieth century would be i... Walter Barlow Stevens, Books, History, Missouri the Center State; 1821-1915 Books>History, General Books LLC<
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Walter Barlow Stevens:
Missouri the Center State; 1821-1915 - new book
ISBN: 9781155092560
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII. MISSOURI GEOGRAPHY. The Center State--Original Boundaries--What Was Embraced Within Them--The Treasure Chest of the Continent--Prophecy of Newton Dwight Hillis--A Slave Peninsula in a Free Soil Sea--The Price of the Platte Purchase--An Interpreter, a Blacksmith, a Grindstone, and $2,500--That Jog Into Arkansas--The Northern Line Controversy Laying Out the Counties--Early Provision for Public Education--Admiration for War Heroes--Political Convictions--State of Pike--The Rush to Platte--Many Changes in Names--How Callaway Got a Court House--County Scat Wars--When Liberty Was Farthest West--Some Lost Cities--Old Chariton Rivaled St. Louis--Disappearance of St. Andrews--Town Site Speculation in the. Early Decades--William Muldrow, Mis-souri''s Foremost Optimist--Marion City the Original of Dickens'' Eden--The Ambition of the Osage Promoters--Springfield''s Start--Kickapoo, the Beautiful--Neosho''s Encircling Springs--The Early Colonies--Some Notable First Settlers--Community Ex-periments--The Fanatical Pilgrims--Liberal''s Motive--The Mennonites--Harmony Mission--Town, River and Prairie Nomenclature--The Indians'' Hidden Fountains of Health. 1 came from the center of the earth.--Bishop Thomas Bowman, of Missouri. To a Boston audience in 1913, Rev. Dr. Newton Dwight Hillis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, said: God built this country like a ship, with the Mississippi for the keel, and the rivers, like the Ohio and the Missouri and their various branches, stretching forth on either side like ribs from the keel; but the center of the ship always is the captain''s treasure chest and in that central spot are assembled all the riches of the cargo. Long ago Mr. Gladstone prophesied that the Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds of the twentieth century would be i... Walter Barlow Stevens, Books, History, Missouri the Center State; 1821-1915 Books>History <
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