Vol. 119, No. 2, January 2025

Feature Articles

  • The Missouri Scenic Rivers System and the Origins of the Property Rights Movement, by Brooks Blevins 
  • Journal of a Bombing Mission: B-24 “Blue D,” Italy 1945, by Charles R. Mayes, Part 2, with an Epilogue by Daniel A. Crews, annotated by Daniel A. Crews, Kimberly Harper, and John Brenner
  • “That's the Pioneer Spirit We Inherited”: The Herschends, the Ozarks, and the Rise of Silver Dollar City, an interview with Peter Herschend by Senator Roy Blunt

From the Stacks

Research Center–Kansas City

  • Establishing the Jewish Education Council, 1966–1968, by Bridget D. Haney

Book Reviews

  • Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis, by Patricia Cleary
    Reviewed by Kathleen DuVal
  • New Fields of Adventure: The Writings of Lyman G. Bennett, Civil War Soldier and Topographical Engineer, 1861–1865, by Lyman G. Bennett, edited by M. Jane Johansson
    Reviewed by Carl J. Moneyhon
  • Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads, by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman
    Reviewed by Mark Guarino
  • Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, by Mark Walczynski
    Reviewed by Paul W. Mapp
  • The Origins of Missouri English: A Historical Sociophonetic Analysis, by Christopher Strelluf and Matthew J. Gordon
    Reviewed by Mary Kohn
  • Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of Trans World Airlines, by Daniel Rust and Alan B. Hoffman
    Reviewed by M. Houston Johnson V
  • Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War, by Stephen G. Hyslop
    Reviewed by Michael Todd Landis
  • Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery, by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer
    Reviewed by Matthew E. Stanley

Book Notes

  • Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland, by Kevin J. Koch
  • The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen, by Michelle Brooks
  • Respectable Roughnecks: The True Story of a Forgotten Champion, by Brendon Steenbergen, Foreword by Gary Pinkel
  • When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes, by Benjamin G. Rader
  • The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided, by Sean Patrick Cooper
  • Ste. Genevieve, Missouri: A Walk through History, by Valerie Battle Kienzle, Foreword by Bill Hart

News in Brief

Cover Description

Fishing on Indian Creek near McNatt, Missouri, early 1900s. [Lynn Morrow Papers, R1000]