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The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal ...
Antony's oriental policy until the defeat of the Parthian expedition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 1: "For a comprehensive study of Antony's relations to the Orient, it is necessary to take up in some detail the proconsulship of Gabinius in Syria, for it was as commander of the cavalry that Antony first ...
A critical history of the Texas Christian Advocate, 1849-1949
(University of Missouri., 1952)
Before Tohaikovsky wrote his Fifth symphony and the year Wordsworth died, preachers with guns and an old hand press were publishing a newspaper on the Texas frontier. The preachers were Methodists and they called their ...
Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Lenz provides a historical overview of the American confidence man, and its role as a literary convention.
Missouri alumnus, volume 016, number 08 (1928 April)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1928)
Bulletin : fall schedule, 1979
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1979)
Bulletin : fall schedule, 1978
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1978)
Profile, fall semester, 1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1980)
Thomas Stothard : the mechanisms of art patronage in England circa 1800
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
art is a challenge to the accepted notion that political artists produce only" tough" art. An account of Stothard's life, in particular of the special nature of his relation to his employers, reveals the increasingly complex role of the artist...
Missouri alumnus, volume 029, number 03 (1940 November)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1940)
Inner landscapes : the theater of Sam Shepard
(University of Missouri Press, 1984)
notes in as much detail as possible on an event that's happening somewhere inside me'; that 'event,' fueled by what Shepard has called a library of stored images and experiences, constitutes an inner landscape that is expressed throughout the plays...
Relative influence of the sire and dam upon the inheritance of speed in standard trotting horses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
Since the study of the transmission of character began, a diversity of opinion has existed and some data have been secured upon the relative influence of sire and dam in the production of offspring. From the limited data ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 047, number 04 (1958 December)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1958)
Bulletin : winter semester, 1978
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1978)
Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.
The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
"An extended study of the Elegies of John Donne is long overdue. Beyond such notable exceptions as "Going to Bed," "The Perfume," and "The Bracelet," the Elegies, overall, constitute a neglected area of Donne's canon. In ...
List of students and degrees, 1951
(University of Missouri, 1951)
Critism of the methods of Christian missions in China from a sociological point of view
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page 1: "Christian Missions have been a powerful agency toward the social transformation of mission lands. While it has been as a rule the avowed purpose of missionaries to work for individuals, they have from ...
It's good to tell you : French folktales from Missouri
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
The stories told in this book, like the stories on television, illustrate the triumph of good over evil; the rewards of heroism and virtue; and the endurance of the human spirit when faced with tragedy and catastrophe. In ...