History of Taney Stone County Missouri

Description

Ozark Area History & Folklore, plus Richly Detailed Biographies!
Taney & Stone Counties, Missouri
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New
61-Page
Booklet
Early days in Taney and Stone
Counties, Missouri,
are recalled in this 11" x 8.5" spiral-bound booklet, comprised of excerpts from Goodspeed Brothers:
A Reminiscent History of The Ozark Region
(1886),
Missouri, A Guide to the "Show Me" State,
a 1941 WPA publication,
The State of Missouri, an Autobiography
(a publication written for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition), and other sources. The 61-page booklet is printed on 60# paper. A vinyl sheet has been added to protect the front cover.
The first part of the booklet contains a history of the Ozark area, especially as it relates to Missouri, two brief histories of the counties, and bios of leading citizens.  The WPA section has a  section on Ozark folklore, and brief stops at Forsyth, Chula Vista, Branson, Marvel Cave, the School of the Ozarks, and Hollister. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition book takes a 1904 look at these counties.
The biographies, most of which quite detailed, include:
Taney County:
Capt. C.C. Owen, Thomas J. Stallcup, George W. McCarty, Thomas F. Williams, Charles H. Groom, S.W. Boswell, Hervy A. Massey, Barnett P. Parrish, John Kintrea, Jeremiah J. Wood, James K.P. McHaffie and David McHaffie (with pictures), J.A. Weatherman, J.G. Siler, Robert A. Smith, Jasper N. Ray, Benjamin F. McKinney, John L. Cook, Reuben S. Branson, Alexander C. Kissee (with picture), Major Sampson Barker, Jesse A. Tolerton, E.W. Cline, J.M. Haworth, David M. Trammell, John T. Keesee and William T. Jenkins, John May, W.W. Moore, John Moseley, David J. Smith and L.T. Cornett;
Stone County
:
Jacob Yocum, J. Frank Seaman, William Hembree, Thomas L. Viles, Dutton J. Reynolds, J.G. Short, Dr. Lafayette Henson, Patrick C. Berry, Elbert H. Butler, Dr. Wesley B. Wasson, Alfred Peters, Albert Hodges, William E. McDowell, Thomas H. Smith, Isaac H.A. Daniel, William W. Kimberling, Henry Oswalt, Francis M. Henson, M.A. McMonigle, Sigel Henson, Thomas Gold, Capt. George W. Moore (with picture), Henry G. Parsons, John Short, Henry C. Thomas, Henry C. Ambrose, William F. Webster (with picture), Major James A. Milton (with picture), S.B. Taylor, John D. Graves, John H. Anderson, George B. Shepherd, Thomas C. Wade, Jesse O. Martin, William H. May, John D. Stone, Allen Gentry, Alexander Thompson and John S. May.
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