Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State," but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle "Queen of the Bandits" Starr and C
Following victories at Carthage and Wilson's Creek in the summer of 1861, the Confederate-allied Missouri State Guard achieved its greatest success when it advanced on Lexington in September. Former M
Explores notorious incidents that occurred throughout the state of Missouri from the nineteenth century through the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s.
From its founding in the early 1830s, Springfield was a rough frontier town where whiskey flowed freely, gunplay and fistfights abounded and gambling thrived. The Civil War not only brought the horror
During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the largest and most important place in southwest Missouri. The Northern and Southern armies vied throughou
This fascinating read collects true stories of desperadoes in the Ozarks region between the 1860s and 1950. The Missouri Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, and many more are featured.
A strange sort of pride tends to embellish infamy -- like the notion that Frank and Jesse James robbed every bank in Missouri. But the citizens of Joplin need not exaggerate their community's unsavory
Though the First and Second Battles of Newtonia did not match epic Civil War battles like Antietam, where over thirty-five hundred soldiers were killed in a single day, and Gettysburg, where twice tha
This fascinating read collects true stories of infamous shootouts and other colorful episodes that occurred in the Ozarks region between the 1860s and 1950. Wild Bill Hickok, the Youngers vs. the Pink
