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 The
Love Pirate and the Bandit's Son
by Laura James
[Book Review]
Call
Me Charlie: A Novel of A Quantrill Raider
By Larry Wood
[Book Review]
 Saga
of Fort Leavenworth Castle
By Donald J. Olsen
[Book Review]
 Billy
the Kid - The Best Writings on the Infamous Outlaw
By Harold Dellinger
[Book
Review]
 Guerrillas
and Other Curiosities: Bud, Donnie and Me
by Samuel Anderson Pence, edited by Harold Dellinger
[Book
Review]
 The
Heart and Soul of America
by Harold E. Davis
[Book
Review]
 Nelly Don: A Stitch In Time
by Terence O'Malley (Available in Book and DVD)
With encouragement from family
and friends, Nell convinced Peck's Dry Goods Store in downtown Kansas City
to order 18 dozen dresses. Those dresses sold out the first morning they
went on sale . . . [Book
Review]
 As
the Mockingbird Sang, the Civil War Diary of Pvt. Robert Caldwell Dunlap,
C.S.A.
Researched and annotated by Suzanne Staker Lehr
The story of nineteen-year old
Robert Caldwell Dunlap, who in response to the news his father brought
home from town, left his plow, saddled up his horse, and rode off from
southern Buchanan County at sundown on June 10, 1861, to find General
Sterling Price’s army. [Book
Review]
Johnson County, Kansas - A Pictorial History,
1825-2005
Published by the Johnson County Museum
Johnson County, Kansas-A Pictorial History,
1825-2005, recounts the successes and the struggles of the people who have
called this county home for the last 180 years.
[Book
Review]
 Fishing
on Deep River,
The Civil War Memoir of
Private Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A.
Researched and annotated by Suzanne Staker Lehr
Fishing on Deep River is the Civil War
memoir of a DeKalb (Missouri) resident, who at seventeen left behind his
classes at the Bloomingdale Academy in Buchanan County, Missouri, and
enrolled in the Missouri State Guard. [Book
Review]
 A
Darkness Ablaze
by Joseph Kinyoun Houts, Jr.
A chilling, detailed account of American
medicine during the Civil War. The basis of the book is the Medical
Diary of the author’s great-great-grandfather, Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun,
regimental surgeon of the Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
[Book
Review]
 Hometown Beer,
A History of Kansas City's Breweries
by H. James Maxwell and Bob
Sullivan, Jr.
Two
Kansas City authors have written a comprehensive 300-page book that
chronicles the history of all of the breweries that have existed in the
city in its 150 years. Hometown Beer is beautifully laid out with 585
photos and illustrations, 352 of which are in color.
Five years of research resulted in an extremely thorough compilation of
vintage photographs, advertisements from local publications, and detailed
accounts of each breweries history. [Book Review]
Robidoux's
Town
by
Robert J. Willoughby, Ph.D.
 Platte Purchase Publishers,
a Division of The St. Joseph Museums Inc., is proud to announce that
Robidoux's Town by Robert J. Willoughby, Ph.D., has been reprinted.
Robidoux's Town is a nineteenth-century history of St. Joseph, Missouri,
that was first published in hardback in January of 1989. The book has been
out-of-print since 2001. The new paperback edition cover features the
painting "St. Joseph 1850" by Harry Wright and illustrations from the
collections of The St. Joseph Museum. [Book Review]
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