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Title
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Jesse James Biography
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Description
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Biography of Jesse James (1847-1882), "outlaw" and "the terror of the Missouri and western frontier during his heyday" along with his brother, Frank, and their gang. Born in Clay County, Missouri, and active in the Kansas City and Saint Joseph areas with a series of robberies.
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Date
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1985
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Encyclopedia of Missouri--A Volume of Encyclopedia of the United States
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Description
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Biography of Carry Nation (1846-1911), "temperance reformer," raised partially and buried in Cass County, Missouri. Description of her crusades against alcoholism and illegal saloons in Kansas in the late 19th century, famous for brandishing hatchets in their destruction.
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Date
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1985
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Jim Bridger
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Description
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Biography of James Bridger, or Jim Bridger (1804-1881), "frontiersman," born in Richmond, Virginia. Beginning as a boy he explored the West including the Rocky Mountains. He lived intermittently at a farmhouse "only four miles away from Kansas City" starting in 1850, retiring there in about 1870.
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Date
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1905-06-07
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Encyclopedia of Missouri--A Volume of Encyclopedia of the United States
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Description
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Biography of Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), "motivational speaker and author," "a native of a Maryville, Missouri farm," but beginning as a schoolboy in his career and establishing by 1920 "his own public speaking school," writer of the famous book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" in 1936, and buried south of Kansas City in Belton, Missouri.
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Date
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1985
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Leroy Robert Paige (Satchel)
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Description
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Biography of Leroy Paige (Satchel) (1906-1982), "one of the best pitchers in baseball history," playing for numerous teams in the early 20th century, including "the Kansas City Monarchs, leading them to the Negro American League Pennant in 1941," and the Kansas City Athletics in the early 1950s.
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Date
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1985
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Encyclopedia of Missouri--A Volume of Encyclopedia of the United States
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Description
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Biography of Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), the artist, "well-known for his surreal, cartoon-like paintings of Americana." Born in Neosho, Missouri and becoming an art student in Paris until 1912, art teacher "at several eastern colleges" after World War I, and resident of "Kansas City, Missouri from 1935 until his death."
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Date
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1985
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Object Type
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Book
