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Winner of the 2024 Missouri Conference on History Book Award; the 2024 Missouri History Book Award; and Honoree for the 2024 Society of Midland Authors Award for History The history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white settlers and forced Indian removal would lead us to believe. In this path-breaking narrative, Greg Olson presents the Show Me State's Indigenous past as one span­ning twelve millennia of Native presence, resilience, and evolu­tion. While previous Missouri histories have tended to include Indigenous people only during periods when they constituted a threat to the state's white settlement, Olson shows us the con­tinuous presence of Native people that includes the present day. Beginning thousands of years before the state of Missouri exist­ed, Olson recounts how centuries of inventiveness and adapt­ability enabled Native people to create innovations in pottery, agriculture, architecture, weaponry, and intertribal diplomacy. Olson also shows how the resilience of Indigenous people like the Osages allowed them to thrive as fur traders, even as settler colonialists waged an all-out policy of cultural genocide against them. Though the state of Missouri claimed to have forced Indigenous people from its borders after the 1830s, Olson uses U.S. Census records and government rolls from the allotment period to show that thousands remained. In the end, he argues that, with a cur­rent population of 27,000 Indigenous people, Missouri remains very much a part of Indian Country, and that Indigenous history is Missouri history.

‘You'd better come home right away… because, brother, we're expecting you.'The year, 1991. The town, Colonnades, Victoria. Sixteen-year-old Aleck Bride lives with his divorced mother and his big brother, Craig. His mum's boyfriend is a pathetic alcoholic named Dietrich, who often takes out his frustrations on Aleck. But soon he discovers he has much worse things on his plate than Dietrich's violent outbursts. When the school misfit begins to single out Aleck for a campaign of harassment and intimidation, he, at first, dismisses it. But as the stalking turns into full-blown psychosis, it rapidly escalates into a campaign of terror that will threaten the lives of everyone in Colonnades, for as the mystery begins to unravel, it soon becomes clear that somewhere beneath the town, there lurks an ancient terror worse than all the horrors of Colonnades combined; an ancient terror that has the power to turn nightmares into reality. So why not come pay a visit? You might discover that it's closer to home than you think. Come home to Colonnades today. Because, brother, we're expecting you… Authorised by the Ministry of Adrian (Formerly Colonnades City Council).

Contains the plays Rookery Nook, Thark, Plunder and The Bed Before Yesterday. ‘Travers should be regarded as an important figure post-Pinero and pre-Orton, and certainly one of the most skilled of British farceurs'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ‘The single-track dirty mind, the double entendre, the treble think, the quadruple bluff: funny names, funny local yokels, domineering women, pretty girls and the ever-swinging bedroom door… Explosively funny'Richard Usborne, The Times Literary Supplement

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Falls Church, Virginia, was settled in 1699 and named for its first church. Located near Washington, D.C., this rural farming community grew into an important crossroads during the 19th century. Prior to World War II, its most significant growth occurred during the Victorian era. The area and lifestyle of its residents were significantly impacted by the Northern migration into the South for better farmland; the Civil War; the expansion of railway service; the developing role as a suburb ofWashington; and military buildup during the Spanish-American War. This collection of vintage images portrays the people, places, and events that are central to the Victorian heritage of Falls Church.