It Happened in Missouri

It Happened In...

by Sean McLachlan

Mound City, the city before St. Louis, Mound City, 1200 --
The teenager who built a city, St. Louis, 1764 --
The Battle of Fort San Carlos, St. Louis, 1780 --
Lewis and Clark brave the Missouri River, Missouri River, 1804 --
Daniel Boone's Missouri misadventure, Missouri River, 1805 --
Founding Fort Osage, Fort Osage, 1808 --
The New Madrid earthquake, New Madrid, 1811 --
A state in the making, Missouri, 1818-1821 --
A German in Missouri, Warren County, 1929 --
A slave sues for his freedom, St. Louis, 1846-1856 --
The Saluda disaster, Lexington, 1852 --
The Pony Express sets out, St. Joseph, 1860 --
The first Civil War shots in Missouri, St. Louis, 1861 --
Black troops show ther mettle, Bates County, 1862 --
General Price's invasion of Missouri, Missouri, 1864 --
Outlaws, lawmen and outlaw lawmen, Joplin, 1872 --
The James Gang robs a train, Gads Hill, 1874 --
Connecting the bootheel to the world, Cape Girardeau, 1880 --
The "Kansas Cyclone" descends on Missouri, St. Louis and Kansas City, 1901 --
Joseph Folk cleans up Missouri, Missouri, 1905 --
The toughest marathon in history, St. Louis, 1904 --
Fire at the Capital! Jefferson City, 1911 --
The golden lane, St. Louis, 1916 --
Springfield and the great streetcar strike, Springfield, 1916 --
Luella St. Clair Moss runs for Congress, Columbia, 1922 --
The Cardinals' first World Series, St. Louis, 1926 --
Breaking the Pendergast Machine, Kansas City, 1939 --
From Missouri to the White House, Missouri, 1948 --
Building the Arch, St. Louis, 1965 --
Missouri : the flood state, Hannibal, 1993 --
Missouri facts and trivia

Genres: Nonfiction, History

150 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

About the author

Sean McLachlan is a former archaeologist who worked for many years on excavations in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Now a full-time writer, he specializes in fiction, history, and adventure travel. In 2013 he won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for his Iraq reportage.

Half of Sean's time is spent on the road researching and writing. He's traveled to more than 30 countries, interviewing nomads in Somaliland, climbing to clifftop monasteries in Ethiopia, studying Crusader castles in Syria, and exploring caves in his favorite state of Missouri.

Sean works in a number of genres, especially historical mystery and science fiction.

Sean is always happy to hear from his readers, so drop him a line via his blog!

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

What is best about this book? The chapters are short and most of the topics interesting.

What is worst about it? The author writes either for or like a relatively bright high school student. I felt like I was reading somebody's homework most of the time. And it was not all "A" work.

But it is worth having around for those occasions when you have a few minutes to kill and need some reading material . . . preferably while sitting.

[Paula Shreckhise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating book about events in Missouri history. It covers thirty events or people from 1200 to 1993 in some detail. There is a list of more events with less detail in the back of the book.
Recommend this one for history buffs or any Missourian who wants to expand their knowledge of their heritage.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a realy good book. You learn things about the state that you might not have known. Also things that you never knew. The one thing I liked about this book is that most chapters are only four pages long ,yet filled with information. I give this book five stars and would recomend it to any history buff.