Missouri: A Bicentennial History

ISBN-13: 9780393333855 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 236 str.

Paul C. Nagel

Opis

In the era of overland traders and steamboat pilots, of Thomas Hart Benton and Mark Twain, life in Missouri was strongly flavored by the Jeffersonian spirit, expressed in a suspicion of large cities, a belief that mankind flourished best in a rural setting, and a faith in the free individual as the guardian of liberty.