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• 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)

• Quantrill and the Border Wars (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1910), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War, by Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at MOA)
• 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)
• Martyrdom in Missouri, by W. M. Leftwich (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)

• Official Proceedings of Annual Reunion of Missouri Division, United Confederate Veterans, by United Confederate Veterans Missouri Division (partial serial archives)

• White River Valley Historical Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• White River Valley Historical Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

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

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Missouri, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Missouri (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• Early History of Greater Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas: The Prophetic City at the Mouth of the Kaw (Diamond Jubilee edition, 1928 (only 1 volume published); Kansas City, MO: C. P. Deatherage, 1927), by C. P. Deatherage (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early History of Greater Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas: The Prophetic City at the Mouth of the Kaw (Diamond Jubilee edition, 1928 (only 1 volume published); Kansas City, MO: C. P. Deatherage, 1927), by C. P. Deatherage (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Missouri, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Missouri (partial serial archives)

• The Missouri Persecutions, by B. H. Roberts (page images at Google; US access only)

• My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown and Co., 1880), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• 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 the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• 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 Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated 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

• Managers in Distress: The St. Louis Stage, 1840-1844 (St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation, 1949), by William G. B. Carson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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)

• 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, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.