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Title: Osceola, Land of Osage River Lore
Description: Description of the early history of the Missouri territory of the Osage Indians, especially in Saint Clair and Jackson Counties from 1719 to 1825.
Date: 1960-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Contributors' Club: Old Times on the Missouri
Description: Article about the history of navigation on the Missouri River and Osage River, giving comparisons of different times, as far back as the Missouri Indians, to an 1886 voyage aboard the steamboat "General Meade."
Date: 1903-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Site of the Old Toll Bridge at Linn Creek
Description: Photo and text about the old toll bridge over the Osage River at Linn Creek, now submerged beneath the Lake of the Ozarks.
Date: 1932-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: One Hundred Years on the Missouri River
Description: Article about the history of steamboats on the Missouri and Osage Rivers, especially the early ones visiting Saint Louis and Kansas City, including the following: "Western Engineer" (page 21), "Zebulon M. Pike" and "Maid of Orleans" (page 23), "Steamboat Trapper" (page 24), "Flora Jones" (page 31), "James H. Lucas," "Wyoming," "Ben W. Lewis," "Morning Star," "Meteor," "Timour," "Saluda," and "Edna" (page 33), "Twilight" (page 34), "Bertrand," "Butte," "Boreas," "Ozark Uplift," and "Missouri Belle" (page 36).
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Louis Vasquez, Mountain Man
Description: Mention of "the old Harmony Mission on the Osage River," visited by mountain man Old Bill Williams in the mid-1800s, on a trading assignment from Fort Osage.
Date: 1958-12-01
Object Type: Magazine Article