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Pages: 198
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Categories: History
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Pages: 0
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Categories: German Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-15 - Publisher: Missouri Life Magazine

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Abolitionizing Missouri
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Authors: Kristen Layne Anderson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-18 - Publisher: LSU Press

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Germans in the Civil War
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A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
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Authors: Joel P. Rhodes
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-15 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to th