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1987-Present

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Newsletter Date
 
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Agee, S.W.: "The Battle of Iuka"
January, 2005
Albertson, Joseph: "Small Town Business: Ryors"
August, 2004
Allen: "Josephine Black Scott Willis Hood Parsons Allen"
December, 1990
Allen: Professor J.H.: "The Battle of Iuka"
January, 2005
Aud,  Joseph Henry 
February, 1989
Babb, James H.: "The Mail Bag"
October, 2005
Backues,  Sanford: "An Osage County Pioneer"
March, 1989
Backhaus/Baker, Charles: "Cooper Hill Sesquicentennial"   

April, 2007
Baclesse,  Louie: "Louie Was a Legend in His Time"
September, 1989
Bacon, Sarah: "Sarah Jane Shepard Bacon: A Century Well-lived"
February, 1991
Baker, Bob: "The Little Team that Could"
March, 2006
Baker, Clarence: "Osage County Goes to War"
July, 2002
Baker, John & Annie: "Baker-Vogel"
November, 2000
Baty/Beatty, Dan: "Murder at Koenig"                                             
April, 2000
                            "Slayer of J.H. Hopkins Now in Jail"
May, 2000
                            "Hopkins Brutally Murdered"
September, 2006
Bautzer, Edward F.: "The Mail Bag"
January, 1997
Benne,  William J.: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
October, 2003
Berry, Jerry: "Bailey's Creek: Early Settlers"
June, 1988
                      "Jerry Berry (Ollie Berry in Background)"
July, 1988
                      "A Muenks Remembrance"
September, 1988
                       “The Slavery Issue, Part IV”

June, 2008
Bishop, James: "Early Osage County Murder Cases"
August, 2006
Blevins, James Jefferson: "Life in Early Osage County"
October, 1991
Boeger, Simon and August: "The Store that Became a Town"
October, 1999
Boillot, Charles J.: "L'histoire des Familles"
June, 2006
Boillot, Jules: "A Christmas Tragedy"
September, 2006
Bonnot, Felix: "The Railroads in Osage County: Dauphine/Bonnots Mill"
March, 2001
                          "The Lost Pocketbook, or the Drinks Were on the Sheriff"
August, 2005
                          "L'homme Extraordinaire"

June, 2006
Boomer, Col. George
October, 1993
                                   "Colonel George B. Boomer: An Osage County Hero"
March, 2003
Boone, Daniel & Jesse: “Was Osage County Home to Boones?”

January, 2008
                                           “Daniel Boone Revisited”    

February, 2008
Bornhoft, John H., Jr.: "Bornhoft Falls from Barnloft"

January, 2004
Bowen, John Alexander
April, 1989
Bowles, Edward L.: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
November, 2003
Branson, Maj. Gen. Bill C.: "Osage County's Highest Ranking Officer"
November, 2005
Branson, Emmett: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
October, 2003
Branson, Reuben and Galba: "The Branson Connection"
October & November, 1994
Broeker, Harvey and Mabel: "The Store that Became a Town"
October, 1999
Broker: Joseph, Theodore, Vincent & Eugene: "Osage County Goes to War: Brothers"
April, 2002
Bruns, Dr. Bernhard: "Tales of Hopkins" and "The Mail Bag"
February & March, 2005
Bruns, Henriette: "Hold Dear, as Always: Jette, a German Immigrant Life in Letters"
June, 1990
Brunton, Margaret Cleghorn: "Granny Brunton: Good Neighbor to All"
November, 1992
Bryan, William Jennings: "Chautauquas and Such" & "Who Was William Jennings Bryan?"
October, 2005
Busch, C.H.:  "Small Town Business: Ryors"
August, 2004
Callicott: "Bailey's Creek: Early Settlers"
June, 1988
                 "More on the Callicott Family
July, 1988
Campbell, Beulah & Ida Mae (picture)                                                                 
February, 2000
Campbell, Richard: "Tragic Event at the Poor Farm"
September, 2006
Carnes, Brother (minister): "Tales of Hopkins"
March, 2005
Carnes, Landis K.: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
September, 2002
Cartier, Natalie: "Gone to Rest"                                                                              
July, 2000
Carwile, Ernest Roy: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
February, 2004
Colter, John: "Bravery Personified: The Life of John Colter"
August, 2001
Cooper, Dr. James O.: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
January, 2004
Cooper Brothers: "Cooper Hill Sesquicentennial"  

April, 2007
Cooper, John B. and James M.: "Cooper's Heritage"
May, 1991
                                                    "Cooper Hill and the Langenberg Store"
July, 1999
Cox, Wesley: "A Cutting Affray" 

May, 2007
Cramer, Buell B.: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
April, 2004
Cramer, children: "Mysterious Epidemic Strikes Pershing Community"
December, 2006
Curley, Sarpepta: “Discovery Reveals Civil War Treasure”

August, 2007
Curley, William: “Discovery Reveals Civil War Treasure”

August, 2007
Curtiss, Allan A., Jr.: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
October, 2002
Czeschin, Benjamin: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
February, 2004
David: "The David Family"
June, 1989
Davies, Nicholas: "Old Nick Descendants Reune"
January, 1999
Decker: "Family History of Welcome Decker and Mary Ellen Lore"
June, 1989
Decker, Stephen: "Early Osage County Murder Cases"
August, 2006
Dessieux, Paul: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
August, 2003
Dessieux, Paul and Leora: "Homesteading in New Mexico"
January, 1992
Dodd, Captain Sterling
March, 1990
Donehue, P.F. “Pete”: “Now or Never: The WPA and Farm-to-Market Roads”

December, 2007

Dougherty, Hettie: "Hettie Dougherty's Career of Crime and Violence"
April, 1990
"Poisoning Plot Foiled"
September, 2006
Dubrouillet, Joseph Camile: "Le Marchand (The Merchant)"
July, 2006
Dubrouillet, Theophile: "Le Banquier (The Banker)"
July, 2006
Evans, Jesse: "Major Jesse Evans: Revolutionary War Veteran & Osage County Pioneer"
April, 1991
                       "The Search for Jesse Evans"
October, 1992
                       "Jesse Evans Gravesite Marked"               
December, 2000
                        “The Slavery Issue, Part III”

May, 2008
Farrell, Mat: "Mat Farrell Succumbs"                               
November, 2000
Ferguson, Clinton & Clyde: "Osage County Goes to War: Brothers"
March, 2002
Ferguson, Edmund: "Death of Ed Ferguson"                
April, 2000
Ferrier, Earl: "Small Town Business: Linn Drug Store"
November, 2004
Ferrier, Grace Bacon: "Chautauqua Memories"
December, 2005
Feuers, John: "Good-Bye Old Friends: The Editor"
September, 2005
Field, Eugene: “Eugene Field: The Children’s Poet”

January, 2008
Finck, George and Aurelia: "McDaniel/Finck/Maire Family"
May, 1989
Folk, Governor Joseph Wingate
May, 2006
Fork, Antone: "Early Osage County Murder Cases"
August, 2006
Francis, Opal: "From Reader to Reader"
January, 2002
Gamble, Governor Hamilton: "Tales of Hopkins: The Controversy"
June, 2005
Garstang, Thomas & William: "Osage County Goes to War: Brothers"
June, 2002
Gentges, William P.: "Caught in a Tidal Wave"
June, 2002
Giles, Dr.:  "Tales of Hopkins"
March, 2005
Glavin, George, Joe & Felix: "Osage County Goes to War: Brothers"
February, 2002
Glover, Judge: "More Stories of Days of Yore:
May, 2005
Goodman, George: "A Letter from Lula J. Strope"
March, 1989
                                 "A Former Slave's Story"
September, 1999
                                 "George Goodman Remembered"
October, 1999
                                  “The Slavery Issue, Part IV”

June, 2008
Hancock, Ben: "Ben Hancock Dead"                 
July, 2000
Harris, James M.: "He Once Was Lost, But Now is Found"
August, 1999
                               "The Mail Bag"
September, 1999
Heckman, Capt. William L.: "Tales of Missouri's Rivers"
January, 1990
                                                "More Memories from 'Steamboat Bill'"
March, 1990
Helias, Fr. Ferdinand: "The German Migration: Westphalia" 

June, 2007
Herndon, Arthur: "Heaven is Wildcat Hollow"
February, 1990
Herndon, Arthur J. "Rip": "Osage County Goes to War"
July, 2002
Herndon, Clifford: "Osage County Goes to War"         
September, 2001
Hesse, Nicholas: "The German Migration: Westphalia" 

June, 2007
Hildebrand, Sam: "The Notorious Sam Hildebrand"

February, 2007
Hirzel, Judge: "Judge Hirzel Dead"                               
July, 2000
Hodges, James Marshall: "Goin' West"
April, 2006
Hoehne, Kenneth E.: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
September, 2002
Holliway, Robert: “The Osage County Fair: A Century-Old Tradition”

October, 2007
Holloway, John: "Last Hanging in Osage County"
November, 1990 & June, 2000
                              "A Christmas Tragedy"
September, 2006
Hopkins, Charles B.: "The Early Life of Charles B. Hopkins"

March, 2007
Hopkins, David: "Tales of Hopkins: The Controversy"
June, 2005
                               "The Enrolled Missouri Militia: A Civil War Experiment"
January, 2006
Hopkins, Ebenezer: "Tales of Hopkins"
December, 2004, February-April, June, 2005
                                  "Good-Bye Old Friends: The Writer"
September, 2005
Hopkins, J.H.: "Murder at Koenig"                                 
April & May, 2000
                           "Hopkins Brutally Murdered"
September, 2006
Howerton, Judith and Robert: "The Howerton Family: Osage County Nobility"
March, 1990
Huber: "The Huber Family"
August, 1992
Huckstep, C.L. & Gus: "Small Town Business: Linn Drug Store"
November, 2004
Jacquin, Glenn: "Osage County Goes to War"
December, 2001
Jaegers, Henry: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
October, 2002
James, Jesse: "Was He Really Jesse James?"
November, 1995
Jefferies/Jeffers: "Murder and Foul Play"

March, 2007
Jeffers: "Early Osage County Murder Cases"
August, 2006
Jett, Amy: "A Century of Memories" & "With a Song in Her Heart"
December, 1999 & March, 2005
Jones, Dr. A.E. & Armenia: "Fifty-Sixth Wedding Anniversary"
August, 2000
Jones, Dorothy Jean: "Osage County Goes to War: Women in the Armed Forces"
January, 2002
Jones, Dr. John F.: "Work of Physicians Interwoven with Local History"
February, 1993
Jones, V. G.: "A Dedicated Teacher"
September, 1994
Jones, Verna: "Small Town Business: Linn Drug Store"
November, 2004
Keisker, Mrs. Joseph: "Gone to  Rest"                   
March, 2000
Kessler, George: "Mysterious Epidemic Strikes Pershing Community"
December, 2006
Kessler, Henry and Hilda (Uthe): "Mysterious Epidemic Strikes Pershing Community"
December, 2006
                                                          "The Mail Bag"

January, 2007
Kidd, Johnadair: "I Kidd You Not"
September, 1992
                            "Captain Kidd Redux"
October, 1992
Kloeppel, John Joseph: "Tales of Hopkins"
February, 2005
Knoerr, John R.: "A Tribute"
March, 2004
Knoerr, Laura Zewicki
September, 1991
Kotthoff, Henry: "Mysterious Epidemic, Part II"

January, 2007
Kormann, Edward L.: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
November, 2003
Krcmar (Kishmar), John: "An Immigrant's Story"
May, 1991
Krohn, Peter: "An Extraordinary Life"
June, 1999
Lambeth, Samuel: “The Slavery Issue, Part III”    

May, 2008
Lamkin, William and Lavina: "Stewards of their Faith"
May, 1992
                                                  "The Lamkin/Zevely Connection"
June, 1992
Lamouret, Celine: "La Courturiere (The Dressmaker)"
July, 2006
Lane, Dr. Frank: "Tragedy Strikes Prominent Family"
January, 1995
Lang, Julia Ochesky: "Mysterious Epidemic, Part II"

January, 2007
Langenberg, August: "Cooper Hill and the Langenberg Store"
July, 1999
Langenberg, Ted: "The Store that Became a Town"
October, 1999
Laughlin, James: "The Battle of Iuka"
January, 2005
Laughlin, Newt: "The Lost Pocketbook, or the Drinks Were on the Sheriff"
August, 2005
Laughlin, Robert R.: "News from Home"
August, 1999
Laughlin, Silas: "The Battle of Iuka"
January, 2005
Laurent, Victeur:

January, 2007
Leach, Wilhelmina Backhaus: "The Patriarch of Cooper Hill: William Leach" 

May, 2007
Leach, William: "Cooper Hill Sesquicentennial"   

April, 2007
                             "The Patriarch of Cooper Hill: William Leach" 

May, 2007
LeFevre, George and Theodosia: "Where In the World Is LeBoeuf?"
April, 2006
Lemmel, Emma Ulrich: "Grandmother Never Wore Black"
August, 1992
Leutert, Emma Laughlin: "Museum Moments--Emma's Fan"
August, 2006
Lewis, Grace: "The Mail Bag"
January, 2006
Lewis, William Emerson: "In Memoriam"
December, 1993
Lindbergh, Charles: "Lindbergh Lands in Osage County"
September, 1989
Lock: "The Lock/Scheulen Family"
October & November 1988
Lock, A.H. “Tony”:  “The Slavery Issue, Part IV”

June, 2008
Lock, Eugene: “Moonshine Still Donation”

October, 2007
Lock, Henry: "Small Town Business: Lock's Mill, Loose Creek"
September, 2004
Lock, Peter: “Moonshine Still Donation”

October, 2007
Lock, Theodore: "Small Town Business: Lock's Mill, Loose Creek"
September, 2004
Lore: "The Family History of Welcome Decker & Mary Ellen Lore"
June, 1989
Lovell, David Crockett
December, 1992
Luecke, Maj. Joseph F.: "The Lost Pocketbook, or the Drinks Were on the Sheriff"
August, 2005
Mahon, Charles: "**No Drums*No Trumpets**"
April, 1988
                            "Linn Home to Two Telephone Systems"
August, 1989
Mahon, Sullivan: "A Record of the Working Career of Sullivan G. Mahon"
January, 1989
Maire, Amie and Carrie: "McDaniel/Finck/Maire Family"
May, 1989
Malan, Beulah Mantle: "Sting/Mt. Pleasant School"
March, 1996
Mantle, Charles: “The Mick: Small Town Boy, Big City Hero, At Last a Champion”

September, 2007
Mantle, James: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
October, 2002
Mantle, Maria Scriven: "A Letter from Grandmother"
June, 1999
Mantle, Mickey: “The Mick: Small Town Boy, Big City Hero, At Last a Champion”

September, 2007
Mantle, Moses: "Obituary of Moses Mantle"
January, 2000
Mantle, Mutt: “The Mick: Small Town Boy, Big City Hero, At Last a Champion”

September, 2007
Mantle, Tremain: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
September, 2002
McDaniel, J.P.: "Chautauqua Memories"
December, 2005
McDaniel, John J., William Augustus and Elizabeth: "McDaniel/Finck/Maire Family"
May, 1989
McDaniel, Mary E.: "Obituary of Mary E. McDaniel"
December, 2000
McGuire, Arvil: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
August, 2002
Medley, Robert W.: "Osage County Goes to War:: The Supreme Sacrifice"
September, 2002
Melin, Cesarine Senevey: "A Letter from Dauphine"
April & July, 1989
Messersmith, August: “The Slavery Issue, Part II”

April, 2008
Messersmith, William: “The Slavery Issue, Part II”

April, 2008
Meyer, Minnie: "A Lifetime of Service"
January, 1997
Miller, Adam (Colonel): "The Enrolled Missouri Militia: A Civil War Experiment"
January, 2006
Miller, Cell: "Our Special Day on the Gasconade River"
August, 1989
Morgan: "The Man in the Dog Cart"
December, 2005
Moore, Jesse: "An Osage County Patriarch"
September, 1987
Morton, Geraldine (McCarty): "Osage County Goes to War: Women in the Armed Forces"
January, 2002
Mosby, Samuel, et al: "First Overland Trip to California"
July, 1990
Moss, George Washington: "His Life and Times"
May, 1999
Muenks, Peter William
February, 1988
Niekamp, John: "Early Osage County Murder Cases"
August, 2006
Niekamp, Martin: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
August, 2002
Oberkrom, Henry: "The Mail Bag"
November, 2005
Oberkrom, Sam: "Sam's Wooden Leg"
August, 1992
Obermark, Ben: "The Crew Chief"                      
October, 2001
Ott: Louis F. & Edna: "Small Town Business: Koenig: The Koenig Store"
October, 2004
Patterson, Peter Parker: "P.P. Patterson, Patriarch, Farmer, Adventurer"
May, 2003
Pattie: "The Exploration of the West by the Patties"
July & August, 1990
Pattison, Hugh T.: "The Railroads in Osage County: The Rock Island"
May, 2000
Pendleton, George:  "The Mail Bag"
October, 2005
Perkins, Hiram:  "Tales of Hopkins"
March, 2005
Perkins, Peter (slave): "Tales of Hopkins"
March, 2005
Peters: "Obituary of Mrs. Mary Annie Peters"
April, 1990
            "Hettie Dougherty's Career of Crime & Violence"
April, 1990
             "Poisoning Plot Foiled"

September, 2006
Phelps, James W.: "Early Osage County Murder Cases"

August, 2006
Pinet, family: "Les Orphelins (The Orphans):

July, 2006
Pinet, Frank: "Frank Pinet Dies"                         
May, 2000
Pinet, Mrs. John (Samantha): "Mrs. John Pinet Dead"      
March, 2000
Plassmeyer, Rachel: "We Must Always Remember"

November, 2006
Reed, M. O.: "Early School Administrators"
July, 1995
Reistorff, Jacobus: "Early Letters from Loose Creek"
July, 1991
Remley, Mrs. H. (nee Luecke): "The Lost Pocketbook, or the Drinks Were on the Sheriff"
August, 2005
Rhoads, Ambrose: "A Cutting Affray"   

May, 2007
Rickhoff, Dr. A.H.: "Small Town Business: Linn Drug Store"
November, 2004
Ridenhour, John Shep: "The Railroads in Osage County: The Rock Island"
May, 2001
Riegel,  Fred: “Burning Lime”

November, 2007
Riley, Joseph J.: "Reminiscence of the Civil War" & "The Mail Bag"
August & September, 2005
Riley, Joseph J.: "The Legend of Rollins Ferry"

February, 2007
Rippstein, Victor: "The Railroads in Osage County: Dauphine/Bonnots Mill"
April, 2001
Roettgen, Catherine: "Osage County Goes to War: Women in the Armed Forces"
January, 2002
Rollins, Robert and Sally: "The Legend of Rollins Ferry"

February, 2007
Rowan, N.J.: "The Railroads in Osage County: Meta, Part II"
July, 2001
Rowden: "The Wives and Children of Nathaniel Rowden"
July, 1989
Schauwecker, Ben: "Good Church Members"
August, 1991
Schauwecker, Zeno H.: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
September, 2002
Scheulen: "Lock/Scheulen Family"
October & November, 1988
Schlief, Albert: "The Railroads in Osage County: Argyle"
June, 2001
Schmitz, Bernard A. "Ben": "Osage County's First Major"
November, 2001
Schofield, John M. (Brig. Gen.): "The Enrolled Missouri Militia: A Civil War Experiment

January, 2006
Schriefer, Bertha & Meta: "The Railroads in Osage County: Meta"
June, 2001
Schroeder, Harold R.: "Osage County Goes to War: The Supreme Sacrifice"
October, 2002
Schulte, Henry: "A Military Discharge Record"
October, 1989
Schweer, Fritz: "The Railroads in Osage County: Summerfield"
May, 2001
Scott, Dred: “The Slavery Issue, Part III”   

May, 2008
Seay, Camm and A. J.: "Distinguished Father and Son"
March, 1992
Senevey family: "L'Histoire des Familles"

June, 2006
Sexton, Henry H. “Tom” & family: “The Slavery Issue, Part IV

June, 2008
Sharp, Dr. W. L.
May, 1989
Smith, "Uncle" Mose: "Uncle Mose Dead"
August, 2000
Souder, Dr. L.E.: "Small Town Business: Ryors"
August, 2004
Spencer, Mr.: "Murder and Foul Play"

March, 2007
Stang, Robert: "Mysterious Epidemic, Part II"

January, 2007
Stern, Mrs. B.F. (Julia Hopkins): "More Stories of Days of Yore," "The Mystery is Solved," 
 
                           "More about the Mysterious Mrs. Sterne," "Julia Stern Redux
May-August, 2005
Stollmeyer, Walter F.: "World War I . . . Lest We Forget"
November, 2003
Strope, Lula Malan: "The Way It Was (When I Was Growing Up)"
November, 1992
Struempf, John: "Struempf's Settlement" and "Struempf Sues Father Helias"
May, 1990
Struempf, Sevastion & Theodor:  "Brothers Clash at Rich Fountain"

October, 2006
Stuckenschneider, Hugo: "Osage County Goes to War"
November, 2001
Sutton, John: "John L. Sutton, Jr.: An Extra 'Ordinary' Man"
January, 2001
Tackitt, James: "Two Killed, One Wounded at Fredericksburg"

October, 2006
Tainter, Dr. George: "Dr. G. W. Tainter . . . Dentist"
February, 1992
Tellman, Anna Belle: “Last But not Least: The WPA Sewing Ladies”

January, 2008
Terrill, J.W.: "The Railroads in Osage County: Meta, Part II"
July, 2001
Thegle (Tegeler), Louis: "Two Killed, One Wounded at Fredericksburg"

October, 2006
Townley Family: "The Townleys of Chamois"
January, 2003
Townley, John Mann: "The Journey of John Mann Townley"
December, 1991
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