Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: My Missouri
Chapter One. Coming to Missouri: Missouri and Missourians on the Eve of Statehood
Chapter Two. Missourianss Struggle for Statehood
Chapter Three. Settlement and Civilization in Post-Frontier Missouri
Chapter Four. Turbulence in Civil War Missouri
Chapter Five. Post–Civil War Missouri: An Age of Reconstruction and Railroads, 1865–1900
Chapter Six. Missouri in the New Century: Urbanizing Missouri, 1900–1930
Chapter Seven. Missouri in Crisis: The Great Depression and World War II
Chapter Eight. Hope and Change in Post–World War II Missouri, 1945–1969
Chapter Nine. Suburban Growth and Rural Decline: Missouri in the Late Twentieth Century, 1970–2000
Chapter Ten. The Twenty-First Century: Challenges in the New Millennium
Epilogue: Missouri: Land of Promise
Index