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Title: Notes on the Pioneer School of Kansas City, Part One
Description: Footnote mentioning Martin Rice as "one of the County's most noted pioneers" and successor of Reverend Ziba Peterson ("another Mormon preacher" and school founder) as teacher at "a school near the present site of Lone Jack" in the early 1830s.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Martin Rice Rocker to Museum
Description: Brief article about the "hickory rocker" "given to the Historical Society by Fabius Butler of Lone Jack, great-grandson of Martin Rice known as the 'sage of Lone Jack.'"
Date: 1971
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Personal Recollections of Sage of Lone Jack
Description: Portrait and biographical article about Martin Rice (1814-1903), "the oldest living pioneer of Jackson County" just before his death in 1903, known as the "pioneer settler of Lone Jack, Mo." Native of Tennessee moving to Lone Jack, Missouri in 1833 and becoming a writer of poetry and books about western Missouri history.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: What I Saw of Order No. 11
Description: Article with detailed reminiscences of Martin Rice, a Jackson County resident and vocal opponent of Order Number 11 during its execution in 1863. Description of many of the arrests and murders of Missouri residents by Union soldiers.
Date: 1967-02
Object Type: Magazine Article