Vol. 116, No. 4, July 2022

Feature Articles

  • “Fine Herds of Cattle”: Rural Nuns and Farmwork at a Missouri Convent, 1874–1963, By Elyssa Ford
  • Near Death at Byram’s Ford: The Journal of Civil War Soldier J. J. Sitton, Annotated by John Bradbury, Transcribed by Lou Wehmer
  • “The Nearest Run Thing You Ever Saw in Your Life”: The Battle to Create St. Louis’s Zoo-Museum District in 1970, By Charles E. Valier

From the Stacks

Research Center–Springfield

  • From Joplin, Missouri, to the Los Angeles Times: The Betsy Balsley Collection, By Haley Frizzle-Green

Book Reviews

  • A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume I: Western Slavery, National Impasse, Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
    Reviewed by Harry L. Watson
  • A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200. Volume II: The "Missouri Question" and Its Answers, Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley and John Craig Hammond
    Reviewed by Sarah J. Purcell
  • Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell, By Steve Paul
    Reviewed by Brooks Landon

Book Notes

  • Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail, By B. J. Hollars
  • The Mystic City: A History of Jerico Springs, Missouri, By John C. Beydler
  • Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia, Missouri, By Dianna Borsi O’Brien
  • Images of America: McDonald County, By the McDonald County Historical Society
  • A Nation, a City, and Its First Library: Americana as a Way of Life at the St. Louis Mercantile Library for 175 Years, By John Neal Hoover

News in Brief

Cover Description

Detail from Highridge Drive, by Frank Huntington Stack (b. 1937). Oil on canvas, 1964. Gift of the artist. [SHSMO Art Collection, 2013.0001.010]