a collection of ghost stories, many never published before, many from Missouri folklore. They are from varied areas of the state, involve several different types of paranormal manifestation. The book is illustrated with 22 original sketches and enhanced with many quotations pertaining to ghosts. The book has an index and bibliography. Reading level is for middle school children through adults. Reviewers have complimented its being suitable for both.

More Missouri Ghosts

History

Gilbert, Joan

Americas

Mogho Books Llc

Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community’s decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk (“Bear Mountain”) to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town’s economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk’s days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, unable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Down-and-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.

Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century (PA) (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Drury Jr., John H.

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

As settlers moved beyond the eastern seaboard during the early nineteenth century, the government forced thousands of American Indians from their ancestral lands. The Cherokees, the largest and most important tribe in the Southeast, fought exile with a combination of passive resistance and national publicity for their plight. Because they had successfully resisted the government's efforts to move them from their homeland, their removal was particularly brutal when it finally came. The Trail of Tears across Missouri is a moving account of the 1837-1838 removal of the Cherokees from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
After providing an overview of the Cherokees' life in the Southeast and of the events leading up to their exile, Joan Gilbert traces the mass exodus state by state from Tennessee to Arkansas. Successive chapters highlight the experiences and the hardships endured by those forced to travel with inadequate supplies of food, clothing, and transportation. It is estimated that four thousand Cherokees, nearly a quarter of the tribe, died.
In bringing the grim realities of the forced march to life, Gilbert draws from such primary sources as letters, newspaper stories, and the writings of missionaries, guides, and doctors who accompanied them. She focuses on the Cherokees' experiences as they passed through Missouri, using the journals of Dr. W. I. I. Morrow and guide B. B. Cannon.
In addition to chronicling the removal of the Cherokees, Gilbert also brings the story up to date by describing how the nation lives today and how the Trail of Tears has been commemorated.

The Trail of Tears across Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers) (Volume 1)

University of Missouri

Mule Boy

Canal History and Technology Press

A lifetime's collection of spirits, haunts and folklore. Highlights more than a century of Missouri's most spine chilling and unexplainable phenomena. Fully illustrated.

Missouri Ghosts: Spirits, Haunts and Related Lore (Show Me Missouri Series)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Pebble Pub

The state of Missouri is filled with odd happenings, ghostly encounters, unsolved mysteries and most especially, classic ghost stories like the tales of the Lemp Mansion, the infamous St. Louis Exorcism Case, Patience Worth, the Hornet Spook Kight and many others. "Missouri Ghosts" is a wonderful collection of these tales.

Missouri Ghosts, 2nd Edition

Univ of Missouri Pr

Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe, was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh Coal &amp; Navigation Company and built an efficient transportation system that moved coal nine miles over the mountains to Mauch Chunk by Switchback Gravity Railroad, and forty-six miles along the Lehigh Canal to Easton. With the arrival of the railroads, the Switchback became a major tourist attraction. As rail excursionists descended on Mauch Chunk to experience a hair-raising ride on America's first roller coaster and enjoy the magnificent scenery, the coal shipping town, billed by the railroads as "the Switzerland of America," became a tourist destination second in popularity to Niagara Falls. In a story stranger than fiction, the town exchanged its name for the name of Jim Thorpe when the 1912 Olympic hero was laid to rest there in 1954. Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) tells the story of the athlete and his burial, the Switchback Gravity Railroad, the Lehigh Canal, the social scene, and the town's Victorian legacy.

Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)

Drury, John H

Gilbert, Joan Sewell

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

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