Driving Across Missouri

Author : Ted T. Cable,LuAnn M. Cadden
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780700616978

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Driving across Missouri by Ted T. Cable,LuAnn M. Cadden Pdf

Drivers speeding across Missouri on I-70 don't know what they're missing. But Ted Cable and LuAnn Cadden do: untold attractions right along the highway between St. Louis and Kansas City. Driving across Missouri is packed with fun-filled information, stories, and trivia that help travelers look beyond the passing blur to appreciate the "Show Me" state's unique landscapes and landmarks. Its authors unfold the natural beauty of the state's flora, fauna, and rivers (including two of the world's largest); introduce the history of Native Americans, French explorers, and German settlers; reopen routes traveled by Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clark; and bring the Civil War era to life. The entries are tied to mile markers for travelers driving either east or west-no need to "transpose," because the authors have done it for you. Cable and Cadden tell the story behind Boone's Lick Trail at mile marker 194.0 and point out likely roosts for red-tailed hawks. They entice you to take Exit 170 to explore Graham Cave State Park, or 148 to visit the Winston Churchill Memorial at Fulton. And within the city limits of Kansas City and St. Louis, where mile markers often aren't visible, they guide the reader to notable features like the former's Jazz Museum or the latter's landmark churches. Graced with dozens of illustrations and an ample array of lively anecdotes, Driving across Missouri provides more detail for "ordinary" landscape features than can be found in most other guidebooks, whether relating the story behind the "Meramec barn" or using cornfields as a point of departure to discuss "Missouri Meerschaums"-the corncob pipe. Through their vastly entertaining book, Cable and Cadden help to slow things down in the fast lane so that travelers can enjoy Missouri's land and history, while simultaneously making a long trip pass more quickly with stories that interpret the spirit of this great "Show Me" state. And, used in conjunction with Driving across Kansas, readers can now enjoy the ride all the way from the Gateway Arch to the Colorado state line and back again.

Author : John Drake Robinson
Publisher : Compass Flower Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781936688739

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Coastal Missouri: Driving On the Edge of Wild by John Drake Robinson Pdf

Water and Wilderness... Robinson's irreverent humor gets a workout in Missouri's back country. ...Beauty and Danger "I'd crossed a threshold, a no man's land scattered with rattlesnakes and rednecks, whirlpools and whiskey stills, deep woods caverns and cracks named after devils, nervous meth cookers and fish that jump up and smack you in the head. The journey was a wild, wooly hoot!" John Robinson is back on his second tour for the road trip reader. This book comes on the heels of his amazing and humorous first book, "A Road Trip Into America's Hidden Heart - Traveling the Back Roads, Backwoods and Back Yards." In addition to having his car, Erafnus as a character in the book, John introduces the reader to a new companion...

Author : Lyn Wilkerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Missouri
ISBN : 1449579183

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Slow Travels-Missouri by Lyn Wilkerson Pdf

This installment in the Slow Travels Series explores four of the U.S. Highways as they travel through varied regions of the State of Missouri. U.S. Highway 50 follows the route of the Lincoln Highway through the center of the state, connecting the two largest cities, St. Louis and Kansas City, through the state capital of Jefferson City. U.S. Highway 61 follows the great river, the Mississippi, along the eastern edge of the state. This area includes the territory fought over by the colonial powers of France, Spain, and Great Britain, and the varied settlements which consequently developed. U.S. Highway 66 retraces the Mother Road, also referred to as America's Main Street and Route 66. This route travels a northeast to southwest path, once named the Old Wire Road for the early telegraph line which connected St. Louis to Springfield and Joplin. U.S. Highway 71 travels the western edge of the state through the violent history of the Civil War, fought mainly between civilian forces of Missouri and Kansas. Missouri's history has been defined by its varied geography (the height of the Ozarks to the bottoms of the Mississippi) and by the diverse ethnic backgrounds of its settlers.

Author : Warren G. Glimpse,Michael S. Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UIUC:30112060659080

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An Economic Analysis of Energy Supply and Demand in Missouri by Warren G. Glimpse,Michael S. Proctor Pdf

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 1329 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436687

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Missouri (1855-2022) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 221 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : Don Kurz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493056323

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Scenic Driving the Ozarks by Don Kurz Pdf

Scenic Driving the Ozarks features thirty-three separate drives through Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, from the homestead of Daniel Boone and the 250-foot-deep Blue Spring in the north and central sections to the prairie landscapes and the restorative hot springs of the western and southern Ozarks. An indispensable highway companion, Scenic Driving the Ozarks includes route maps and in-depth descriptions of attractions.

Author : J. Peter Rothe
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0888643705

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Driving Lessons by J. Peter Rothe Pdf

With the exception of modern warfare, no other human activity has destroyed as many lives as driving a motor vehicle. Traffic crashes kill and injure thousands of Canadians every year at an incalculable financial and emotional cost to society—but rather than rush to stem this tide of human carnage, policy-makers seem to accept the ghastly toll as the price we pay for mobility. Driving Lessons takes a fresh look at the complexities of the road transportation system in depth, going far beyond the symptomatic, linear, reductionist approach. It challenges current traffic safety paradigms that simply blame the driver or target "villains and scapegoats" like impaired or high-risk drivers. It takes issue with road transportation system management that sometimes puts mobility ahead of the safety of road users. As one researcher notes, human beings will make mistakes, and accordingly, "the road transportation system must be designed so that people’s mistakes do not have disastrous consequences."

Author : Norm Benedict
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456722692

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Thumbs Up by Norm Benedict Pdf

Thumbs Up, V for Victory, I Love You chronicles a special time, from the early 1940's through the mid-50's. It reveals how people moved forward in a world in tumult, and the payoff they received having survived it. It's about a handful of kids who because they were in the right place at the right time were provided an education well above the norms of the day. It reflects the melodrama that is real life, when young and old lived each day to the fullest while making the most of what they had. It's an oral history that tells how the wonders of discovery, communication, education and the opposite sex changed an impressionable boy into a determined young man. A period that has not been afforded the coverage it deserves, Thumbs Up, V for Victory, I Love You reveals a softer time, but one no less significant or singular than any other.

Author : Marion Milner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136724435

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An Experiment in Leisure by Marion Milner Pdf

What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One’s Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives. Instead of drawing on her daily diary, she turns to memory images – images not only from her own life but also from books, mythology, travel and religion that seem to point to a suspension of ordinary, everyday awareness. From this condition of emptiness springs an increasing imaginative appreciation both of being alive and of the world we live in. With a new introduction by Maud Ellmann, An Experiment in Leisure remains a great adventure in thinking and living and will be essential reading for all those from a literary, an artistic, a historical, an educational or a psychoanalytic/psychotherapeutic background.

Author : LuAnn Cadden,Ted Cable
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625845047

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Traveling Through Illinois by LuAnn Cadden,Ted Cable Pdf

If you have been driving through Illinois on I-55 and exclaimed, "There's nothing out there but corn " you aren't alone, but you couldn't be more wrong. Learn why Steven Spielberg visited Waggoner, Illinois, and what fruit Abraham Lincoln used to christen the town named after him, as well as what route was frequented by flesh-eating birds and what antique mall was said to harbor a spaceship. When you travel in the company of LuAnn Cadden and Ted Cable, every mile marker between Chicago and St. Louis hides a story, and even grain silos become adventure destinations.

Author : Ted T. Cable,Wayne Maley
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780700624140

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Driving across Kansas by Ted T. Cable,Wayne Maley Pdf

In his introduction to Dan Dancer’s The Four Seasons of Kansas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reflects upon the Great Kansas Passage of those who race their cars westward across Interstate 70 without trying to understand the truth of the place. Ted Cable and Wayne Maley come to the rescue of those travelers with a new guide that will expand and enrich their understanding of a state whose history, in Heat-Moon’s words, is “a tumbling of guns, torches, hatchets, and knives.” Guided by Cable and Maley, the historical landscapes of I-70 come back to life, recalling landmarks and legacies relating to pioneer movements and Indian dispossession, army outposts and great bison hunts, cowboys and cattle trails, the struggles over slavery and women’s rights, and the emergence of major wheat, beef, oil, and water industries. Their guide parcels out information, mile-marker by mile-marker (in boldface), in a way that’s equally accessible to westbound and eastbound users alike. In this second edition the authors have updated the information throughout, including new sites and new stories. Driving across Kansas, 2nd edition will reward the observant traveler with a treasure trove of details sure to increase his or her appreciation for the great Sunflower State.

Author : Julie Nicolai
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467154833

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Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois by Julie Nicolai Pdf

The Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their stories of courage and perseverance are amazing. Priscilla Baltimore purchased her own emancipation and founded a freedom village. Caroline Quarlls escaped to Canada. Many who fled for their lives spent time bunkered in the basement of Hanson House. The region's Congregationalists brought a fiery. brand of abolitionism. And Prairie Park still holds the faded "haint" blue paint traditionally used on slave dwellings. Author Julia Nicolai details these and other adjective stories.

Author : Lisa Waterman Gray
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581578775

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Explorer's Guide Kansas by Lisa Waterman Gray Pdf

With Explorer’s Guides, expert authors and helpful icons make it easy to locate places of extra value, family-friendly activities, and excellent restaurants and lodgings. Regional and city maps help you get around and What’s Where provides a quick reference on everything from tourist attractions to off-the-beaten-track sites. Along with Amish farms, rolling countryside, and interesting history, Kansas offers rodeos, powwows, pancake races, Renaissance fairs, and spinach festivals. Kansas is known for wheat, cattle, and wide-open spaces, but it also has day spas, boutique hotels, museums, concerts, and vital urban scenes. There’s a lot to see and do here; with an insider guiding you, you can expect extras, like a detailed look at the exciting cultural centers of eastern Kansas, with their fine restaurants, nightlife, and art. There really is no place like Kansas!

Author : Amelia Rose
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Betrayed By Love by Amelia Rose Pdf

When Rose Blalock agrees to take her long-lost grandfather on a cross-country trip, she never dreamed he'd drag her to his childhood home at Carson Hill Ranch. The former foster child has a family she never knew about, one that lives, works, and loves together in a way that she could never let herself imagine as a child. Thanks to Mason Carn, her self-appointed tour guide to the ranch, Rose begins to understand the allure of cowboy life despite brushes with danger and conniving con men. When one of the Carsons goes missing, all eyes turn to Rose and her grandfather, eyes filled with blame. Can she redeem them, and redeem herself in Mason's eyes? Even harder, can she ever forgive herself and move on?

Author : Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195121223

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Lighting Out for the Territory by Shelley Fisher Fishkin Pdf

Fishkin "offers an intriguing look at how Mark Twain's life and work have been cherished, memorialized, exploited, and misunderstood."