There is no source that brings together the experience of childhood on the western frontier or the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. A few authors mention the subject in passing, however, and others provide good overviews of the various historical times. For those who would like to read further, the following are interesting and helpful:
Dains, Mary K., ed. Show-Me Missouri Women. Kirksville: Thomas Jefferson University Press. 1989.
Foley, William E., The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1989.
Foley, William E. and Perry McCandless, Missouri Then and Now. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1992.
Gerlach, Russel L., Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins, with a Wall Map. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1986.
Greene, Lorenzo J., Gary R. Kremer and Antonio F. Holland. Missouri's Black Heritage (Revised) Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 199.
Meyer, Duane, The Heritage of Missouri. St. Louis: River City Publishers. 1970.
Morris, James L. "New times, new challenges for Missouri's public schools. 1985-86 Official Manual of the State of Missouri.
Neider, Charles, ed. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. New York: Harper Row. 1959.
Rollings, Willard H., The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1992.
Romanofsky, Peter. "The Public Is Aroused:" The Missouri Children's Code Commission
1915-1919. Missouri Historical Review 68 (1974): 204-222.
Margo Ford McMillen is an instructor at Westminster College in Fulton and the
publisher/owner of Missouri Interpretive Materials, which produces educational aids for teachers.
For six years she edited Our Missouri, a history quarterly designed for fourth-grade classrooms.
She is also the author of numerous publications, most recently, Paris, Tightwad and Peculiar:
Missouri Place Names (University of Missouri Press, 1994).
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