Vol. 119, No. 3, April 2025

Feature Articles

  • The Chouteau Women: Matriarchy, Matrimony, and Money in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1750–1814, by Joy Masoff 
  • “This Infernal One Man's Law”: George Hesselmeyer and the Fight for the St. Louis Zinc Works, by Jon F. Bergenthal
  • A New Kind of Tourist: Automobiles, the Middle Class, and Route 66 Resorts in the Twentieth-Century Ozarks, by Kimberly Harper and John Brenner

From the Stacks

Research Center–Columbia

  • Darwin Hindman: Columbia's Man with the Can, by Autumn Cuddy

Book Reviews

  • Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Borderlands, 1763–1803, by Francis Kolb Turnbell
    Reviewed by Michael Morris
  • Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age, by Sarah E. Lirley
    Reviewed by Jonathan S. Jones
  • The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, by Boyce Upholt
    Reviewed by John O. Anfinson
  • Vision Accomplished: The History of Kansas City Southern, by William H. Galligan
    Reviewed by Robert J. Voss
  • Killing over Land: Murder and Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier, by Robert M. Owens
    Reviewed by Cameron Shriver

Book Notes

  • The Wonder and Complexity of the 1904 World's Fair, edited by the Missouri Historical Society Press, Foreword by Sharon Smith
  • Lost Missouri Treasure, by W. Craig Gaines
  • The Way We Were: Personal Reflections on Life in the Ozarks, by Lonnie Whitaker
  • St. Louis Trailblazer Erma Bergmann: From Pitcher's Mound to Patrol, by Patricia Treacy, Foreword by Ozzie Smith
  • On the River: A History of the Ozarks Float Trip, by Tom Koob and Curtis Copeland
  • The Trials of the Ford Brothers: The Downfall of the Killers of Jesse James, by Robert J. Wybrow

Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History, 2024

News in Brief

Cover Description

An unidentified man on a sidewalk in downtown Boonville, Missouri, circa 1905. [Maximilian E. Schmidt Photographs, P0001-P057]