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Missouri State University
FIRST Lead Mine in Missouri was on the James River
Lead mine along Pearson Creek, circa 1900. Commercial extraction of lead here began in the 1840s and ended around 1920….
The Battle for Ozarks Identity
John T. Woodruff: progressive president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Woodruff had thousands of copies of “The Ozark Empire…
UP SOUTH IN THE OZARKS – Sampling the cultural DNA of a legendary region
5-Star Review of Brooks Blevins new book by Leland Payton National and regional identities may not have disappeared but what…
THE OZARKS: Where It’s Been, Where It’s Going. Vol. 3 in Brooks Blevins’ Trilogy
Brooks Blevins finds it endlessly fascinating why a modest uplift in the center of America is believed to be the…