University of Missouri Press

Lewis and Clark in Missouri

Third Edition

Ann Rogers

http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/spring2002/rogers.htm

"Lewis and Clark in Missouri is a fast-paced, easy to read book for both newcomers to the expedition and those who are well-versed on the
historic journey. It makes a person want to take a leisurely journey west from St. Louis and visit or revisit what expedition member Charles Floyd
said was `a butiful country of Land'--the Missouri of Lewis and Clark."--Martin Erickson, We Proceeded On

In May 1804 Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery embarked on a seven-thousand-mile journey with instructions from President
Thomas Jefferson to ascend the Missouri River to its source and continue on to the Pacific. They had spent five months in the St. Louis area preparing for the
expedition that began with a six-hundred-mile, ten-week crossing of the future state of Missouri. Prior to this, the explorers had already seen about two hundred
miles of Missouri landscape as they traveled up the Mississippi River to St. Louis in the autumn of 1803.

Lewis and Clark in Missouri focuses on the Missouri chapter of their epic journey, a portion of the story that has been slighted in other accounts. Ann Rogers
uses the journals kept by members of the Corps along with many other primary source materials, providing a firsthand perspective on the people, plants, wildlife,
rivers, and landscapes the explorers encountered. Beautiful color photographs and illustrations complement the text and support the passages Rogers quotes
from the journals.

Brief biographies of Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, John Colter, York, and other members of the expedition tell of their years in Missouri after the journey ended.
Today's followers of the Lewis and Clark Trail can find descriptions of sites to visit in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois.

Carefully researched, yet highly readable, Lewis and Clark in Missouri will be of great interest not only to Missourians, but also to anyone wishing to learn
more about the Corps of Discovery's historic journey.

About the Author

Ann Rogers is a member of the Missouri Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission. She resides in St. Louis, Missouri.

April 2002, 168 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, bibliography, index, 50 illustrations, ISBN 0-8262-1413-4, $29.95t cloth, ISBN 0-8262-1415-0, $17.95t paper

Opening the Ozarks

A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830

Walter A. Schroeder

http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/spring2002/schroede.htm

"Walter Schroeder has produced a definitive study of a crucially important district, a district whose ultimate legacy lies as far afield as Texas,
 California, and Oregon."--Terry G. Jordan

As the oldest European settlement in Missouri, Ste. Genevieve was the funnel through which the eastern Ozarks (the 5,000 square miles beyond Ste.
Genevieve's location on the Mississippi) was established. A magisterial account of the settlement of this area from 1760 through 1830, Opening the Ozarks
focuses on the acquisition and occupation of land, the transformation of the environment, the creation of cohesive settlements, and the building of neighborhoods
and eventually organized counties.

The study begins with the French Creole settlement at Old Ste. Genevieve in the middle of the eighteenth century. It describes the movement of the French into
the Ozark hills during the rest of that century and continues with that of the American immigrants into Upper Louisiana after 1796, ending with the
Americanization of the district after the Louisiana Purchase. Walter Schroeder examines the cultural transition from a French society, operating under a Spanish
administration, to an American society in which French, Indians, and Africans formed minorities.

Schroeder used thousands of French- and Spanish-language documents, including the Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain, as well as documents from Ste.
Genevieve and St. Louis to gather his information. He also utilized thousands of land records from the American period, including deeds of land sales and sales
from the public domain, and plats from both the Spanish and American periods. In addition, Schroeder performed years of fieldwork and perused aerial
photography of the area, interviewing residents and searching for vestiges of the past in the landscape.

As the only study to deal with the cradle of Missouri and the first trans-Mississippi expansion of the Anglo-American frontier, Opening the Ozarks will be
invaluable to anyone interested in America's geographical history, particularly that of Missouri.

About the Author

Walter Schroeder is on the faculty of the Department of Geography at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

May 2002, 552 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, bibliography, index, appendix, tables, maps, illustrations, ISBN 0-8262-1398-7, $49.95s

The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 and 1805

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

"Noble Cunningham, a distinguished Jefferson scholar, leaves no room for doubt about the value and
importance of his latest study. For not only does he provide a thoughtful commentary on these important
addresses and the responses they generated in the press and in private writings, but he also demonstrates for
the first time how widely Jefferson's remarks were circulated both in the United States and abroad."--William
E. Foley

To mark the two-hundredth anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration into the presidency, Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.,
presents The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 and 1805. Of all the addresses delivered by
presidents of the United States at their inaugurations, few have been as memorable as those given by Thomas Jefferson. In
addition to providing the texts of President Jefferson's first and second presidential inaugural addresses, delivered on March 4,
1801, and March 4, 1805, this volume explores their dissemination and impact worldwide.

While President Jefferson's addresses are well known, the extent to which they were published and distributed, and the
responses to them by both individuals and governments, has not previously been considered. In a world where the new
republican government of the United States represented a major departure from the dominant monarchical governments of
Europe, the recognition given to Jefferson's inaugural addresses in Europe and elsewhere is of considerable significance. His
addresses were widely published in newspapers and journals not only in the United States and Canada, but also in Great
Britain, France, Italy, and other European states, as well as later republished in South America.

The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 and 1805 provides evidence of the massive extent to which
Jefferson's addresses have been translated and reprinted, attesting to his international stature as an early spokesman for
democratic principles.

About the Author

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., is Curators' Professor of History Emeritus and author of many books, including In Pursuit of
Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson and Popular Images of the Presidency: From Washington to Lincoln.

March 2001. 136 pp. 8 1/2 x 11. Biblio. Index. 23 color and 56 b&w illus. ISBN 0-8262-1323-5. $29.95s.

The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Margaret B. Moore

"Rarely does anyone map out this native territory so surely and interestingly as
does Moore in this worthy study of Hawthorne's Salem context, in particular
providing a much better account than we previously have had of those fellow
Salemites--their concerns and activities--that Hawthorne found so troublesome in
his own search for identity and imaginative authenticity."--Nineteenth-Century
Literature

"Moore's extensive research into the history of Salem, including the coming of the
Quakers in the 1660s and the witchcraft hysteria of 1692, illustrates the extent of
the town's social, political, and religious influence on Hawthorne's life (especially
his precollege years) and writing."--American Literature

"I found The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne to be an outstanding work of
scholarship that is also readable and even-- time after time--entertaining. . . . It is
certain to become the definitive biography of Hawthorne's Salem years."--Buford
Jones

Although most writers on Nathaniel Hawthorne touch on the importance of Salem,
Massachusetts, to his life and career, no detailed study has been published on the
powerful heritage bequeathed to him by his ancestors and present to him during his years in that town. In The Salem
World of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret B. Moore thoroughly investigates Hawthorne's family, his education before
college (about which almost nothing has been known), and Salem's religious and political influences on him. She details
what Salem had to offer Hawthorne in the way of entertainment and stimulation, discusses his friends and acquaintances,
and examines the significant role of women in his life--particularly Mary Crowninshield Silsbee and Sophia Peabody.

Nathaniel Hawthorne felt a strong attachment to Salem. No matter what he wrote about the town, it was the locale for many
of his stories, sketches, a novel, and a fragmentary novel. Salem history haunted him, and Salem people fascinated him. And
Salem seems to have a perennial fascination for readers, not just for Hawthorne scholars. New information from primary
sources, including letters (many unpublished), diaries, and contemporary newspapers, adds much not previously known
about Salem in the early nineteenth century. Moore has found new sources in various manuscript collections, such as the
privately owned Felt-White Collection and the Richards and Ashburner Papers in the National Library in Scotland. She
also uses extensively the many manuscript collections at the Peabody Essex Museum.

By tracing the effect of Salem on Hawthorne's writing, The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne makes clear that
Hawthorne not only was aware of his "own dear native place" but also drew upon it consciously and subconsciously in his
work. This book contributes to a better understanding of Hawthorne as man and writer and of Salem's vital part in his life
and work.

About the Author

Margaret B. Moore is an independent scholar. She has published widely on Hawthorne and is the former secretary of the
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. Moore lives in Athens, Georgia.

2001. 304 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4. Biblio. Index. ISBN 0-8262-1331-6. $18.95t paper.

Seeking St. Louis

Voices from a River City, 1670-2000

Edited by Lee Ann Sandweiss

Complementing the new permanent exhibition at the Missouri Historical Society, this anthology gathers over three centuries of writings on St. Louis
by 100 individuals who have been inspired to describe the physical and cultural essence of this region.

The volume contains excerpted selections from all genres--travel diaries, poetry, fiction, journalism, drama, and rare out-of-print and previously
unpublished archival material--including poems by Angus Umphraville, from the first volume of verse published west of the Mississippi, and
newspaper articles by Theodore Dreiser when he was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Other compelling excerpts were authored
by such notables as Auguste Chouteau, Charles Dickens, William Wells Brown, William T. Sherman, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee
Williams, Fanny Hurst, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Nzotake Shange, John Lutz, Carl Phillips, and Quincy Troupe. A biographical
introduction precedes each entry to place the author and the excerpt in the proper historical context.

The content of Seeking St. Louis was enriched by the involvement of several of the St. Louis area's foremost literary experts--Robert Boyd, Jan
Garden Castro, Gerald Early, Wayne Fields, and Karen Goering--who served as contributing editors.

Seeking St. Louis is a must for teachers, students, and anyone interested in the panoramic "spirit" of St. Louis.

About the Editor

Lee Ann Sandweiss is director of publications for the Missouri Historical Society and a book reviewer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Distributed for the Missouri Historical Society Press

December 2000. 1200 pp. 6 x 9 1/4. ISBN 1-883982-11-1. $45.00t.

Nathan Boone and the American Frontier

R. Douglas Hurt

Celebrated as one of America's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made
the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. Nathan Boone, the
youngest of Daniel's sons, played a vital role in American pioneering, following in
much the same steps as his famous father. In Nathan Boone and the American
Frontier, R. Douglas Hurt presents for the first time the life of this important
frontiersman.

Based on primary collections, newspaper articles, government documents, and
secondary sources, this well-crafted biography begins with Nathan's childhood in
present-day Kentucky and Virginia and then follows his family's move to Missouri.
Hurt traces Boone's early activities as a hunter, trapper, and surveyor, as well as his
leadership of a company of rangers during the War of 1812. After the war, Boone
returned to survey work. In 1831, he organized another company of rangers for the
Black Hawk War and returned to military life, making it his career. The remainder of
the book recounts Boone's activities with the army in Iowa and the Indian Territory,
where he was the first Boone to gain notice outside Missouri or Kentucky. Even
today his work is recognized in the form of state parks, buildings, and place-names.

Although Nathan Boone was an important figure, he lived much of his life in the shadow of his father. R. Douglas Hurt,
however, makes a strong case for Nathan's contribution to the larger context of life in the American backcountry, especially the
execution of military and Indian policy and the settlement of the frontier.

By recognizing the significant role that Nathan Boone played, Nathan Boone and the American Frontier also provides the
recognition due the many unheralded frontiersmen who helped settle the West. Anyone with an interest in the history of
Missouri, the frontier, or the Boone name will find this book informative and compelling.

About the Author

R. Douglas Hurt is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural History and Rural Studies at Iowa State
University in Ames. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest and
Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie.

Missouri Biography Series, William E. Foley, Editor
October 2000. 272 pp. 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. Illus. ISBN 0-8262-1318-9. $17.95t paper.

A History of Missouri

Volume I, 1673 to 1820

William E. Foley

Including a completely revised and updated bibliography, A History of Missouri: Volume I, 1673 to
1820 covers the pre-statehood history of Missouri, beginning with the arrival in 1673 of the first
Europeans in the area, Louis Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, and continuing through the
development and growth of the region, to the final campaign for statehood in 1820. In tracing the
broad outlines of Missouri's development through the formative years, the author examines the
origins of Missouri's diverse heritage as the region passed under the control of French, Spanish, and
American authorities.

Foley "has written a readable, accurate synthesis of the events in Missouri's history up to 1820 and
thereby provides layman and professional alike with an excellent volume for both reading and
reference. Foley knows his history well. . . . One of the best parts of the book is the excellent
description of the transfer of power from France to the United States and of the early problems in the
territory as the Americans established territorial government. . . . The discussion of the War of 1812
in Missouri is also excellent and demonstrates many problems on the northwestern frontier during
the crisis. . . . The book is outstanding."--Western Historical Quarterly

"Foley has really performed a service to his profession, to the people of his state, and to the reader in
general. He has, for the present generation, supplied a readable, interpretative, and well-organized
history of the early period in his state's history. Indeed, he has given a lucid portrayal of the life and times of the people."--William & Mary
Quarterly

About the Author

William E. Foley is Professor of History at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg. General Editor of the Missouri Biography
Series, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood, Dictionary
of Missouri Biography, and Missouri: Then and Now, Revised Edition.

2000. 264 pp. 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. ISBN 0-8262-1285-9. $18.95t paper.

March 11, 2002