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'Gone But Not Forgotten' - Missouri Pioneers

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Missouri

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Historical Listing of Missouri's State and Federal Officials

History of New Madrid and Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri 1887

This page highlights the disastrous earthquakes that affected the Mississippi Valley and the entire SE United States beginning in 1811 and continuing through 1812.

How Did The Boundary of Missouri Come To Include The Bootheel?

Missouri History Timeline

New Madrid Compendium - The University of Memphis

Here you will find listings of over 600 references that are related to the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.

Origins of Missouri Counties

The Turnbo Manuscripts

By Silas Claiborne Turnbo, 1844-1925. A collection of approximately eight hundred short tales, stories and vignettes that reflect life along the White River Valley in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri during the latter half of the 19th century..

Timeline of Missouri History: 1673-1799