EARLY ENTRY IN HILLBILLY CARICATURE
The idea the Ozarks is inhabited by primitives has been perpetuated in books by educated travelers like Henry Rowe Schoolcraft,…
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Powersite Dam On The White River
Finished in 1913, Powersite was Missouri’s first venture into hydropower. A consortium of St. Louis investors engaged the Ambursen Hydro-Electric…
Origin of Ha Ha Tonka Mythos
In Damming the Osage, we wrote about the connection between Col. R. G. Scott and Robert M. Snyder, who built…
Early Party Barge on the Osage to Monegaw Springs
Nearly a century before Lake of the Ozarks’ infamous Party Cove, people found entertainment on the free-flowing Osage. Small steamboats,…