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• Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians (Columbia, MO: Missouri Book Co., 1918), by F. C. Shoemaker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (St. Louis: Bryan Brand and Co., 1876), by William Smith Bryan and Robert Rose (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond; The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance (Madison, AR: Journal Printing Co., 1917), by Dan. A. Rudd and Theo. Bond, contrib. by James Carroll Napier
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Our Pastors in Calvary: Biographical Sketches of Parish Priests of St. Louis, 1854-1924 (St. Louis: Blackwell Wielandy, c1924), by Mary Constance Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage; Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery; Incidents During the War; Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, by Mattie J. Jackson and L. S. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio

• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1847), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage; Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery; Incidents During the War; Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, by Mattie J. Jackson and L. S. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri, From 1541 to 1877 (St. Louis: C. R. Barns, 1879), by W. F. Switzler (page images at Missouri)

• Martyrdom in Missouri, by W. M. Leftwich (page images at MOA)

• Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, Which Were First Traversed by De Soto, in 1541 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1853), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first edition and commentary), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co., 1884), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain, illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (St. Louis: Bryan Brand and Co., 1876), by William Smith Bryan and Robert Rose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life of George R. Smith, Founder of Sedalia, MO; in its Relations to the Political, Economic, and Social Life of Southwestern Missouri, Before and During The Civil War (Sedalia, MO: Privately printed, c1904), by Samuel Bannister Harding (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Missourians One Hundred Years Ago (1918), by Walter B. Stevens (page images at Missouri)

• Saint Louis: The Future Great City of the World, by L. U. Reavis (page images at MOA)
• A Debate by the Philalethic Society of St. Louis University, on Monday, February 21, 1870 (On the Subject: "Ought the national capital to be removed to St. Louis?"), by St. Louis University Philalethic Society (page images at MOA)

• The Rising Son (partial serial archives)
• The Kansas City Sun (partial serial archives)

• A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Almshouses of Missouri (1904), by Charles A. Ellwood (page images at Missouri)

• Voodoo Tales, As Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Mary Alicia Owen, contrib. by Charles Godfrey Leland, illust. by Juliette A. Owen and Louis Wain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Missourians One Hundred Years Ago (1918), by Walter B. Stevens (page images at Missouri)
• Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri, From 1541 to 1877 (St. Louis: C. R. Barns, 1879), by W. F. Switzler (page images at Missouri)
• A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (St. Louis: Bryan Brand and Co., 1876), by William Smith Bryan and Robert Rose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• State of Missouri vs. Darren Wilson: Grand Jury (24 volumes of transcribed grand jury testimony, with related documents; 2014), by Missouri (PDF files with commentary at cnn.com)

• Southwestern Reporter (partial serial archives)

• Missouri Law Review (partial serial archives)
• Washington University Law Review (full serial archives)
• Washington University Law Quarterly (full serial archives)
• St. Louis Law Review (full serial archives)

• Missouri's Manufacturers: Her Wealth, Industry and Commerce, Embracing Manufacturing, Commercial, Agricultural, and Mineralogical Statistics, and Editorials (St. Louis: Comley Bros., 1874), ed. by Francis Devereaux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martyrdom in Missouri, by W. M. Leftwich (page images at MOA)

• Martyrdom in Missouri, by W. M. Leftwich (page images at MOA)

• A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Jails of Missouri (1904), by Charles A. Ellwood (page images at Missouri)
• The Twin Hells, by John N. Reynolds
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Prison Life and Reflections, by George Thompson (page images at MOA)
• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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