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The Burning of Dayton Missouri - January 1, 1862
by Jackie Polsgrove Roberts

. . . his two hundred men and a twelve-pound howitzer came into the town of Dayton and burned forty-six houses and buildings.  There was only one home left standing in the town, a home belonging to a Union man by the name of William Byler. [Book Review]

Nelly Don: A Stitch In Time
by Terence O'Malley (Available in Book and DVD)

With encouragement from family and friends, Nell convinced Peck's Dry Goods Store in downtown Kansas City to order 18 dozen dresses. Those dresses sold out the first morning they went on sale . . .  [Book Review]

As the Mockingbird Sang, the Civil War Diary of Pvt. Robert Caldwell Dunlap, C.S.A.
Researched and annotated by Suzanne Staker Lehr

The story of nineteen-year old Robert Caldwell Dunlap, who in response to the news his father brought home from town, left his plow, saddled up his horse, and rode off from southern Buchanan County at sundown on June 10, 1861, to find General Sterling Price’s army. [Book Review]

Johnson County, Kansas - A Pictorial History, 1825-2005
Published by the Johnson County Museum

Johnson County, Kansas-A Pictorial History, 1825-2005, recounts the successes and the struggles of the people who have called this county home for the last 180 years.
[Book Review]

Fishing on Deep River, The Civil War Memoir of
Private Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A.
Researched and annotated by Suzanne Staker Lehr

Fishing on Deep River is the Civil War memoir of a DeKalb (Missouri) resident, who at seventeen left behind his classes at the Bloomingdale Academy in Buchanan County, Missouri, and enrolled in the Missouri State Guard.  [Book Review]

A Darkness Ablaze
by Joseph Kinyoun Houts, Jr.

A chilling, detailed account of American medicine during the Civil War.  The basis of the book is the Medical Diary of the author’s great-great-grandfather, Dr. John Hendricks Kinyoun, regimental surgeon of the Sixty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry Regiment.  [Book Review]
 

Hometown Beer, A History of Kansas City's Breweries
by H. James Maxwell and Bob Sullivan, Jr.

Two Kansas City authors have written a comprehensive 300-page book that chronicles the history of all of the breweries that have existed in the city in its 150 years. Hometown Beer is beautifully laid out with 585 photos and illustrations, 352 of which are in color.

Five years of research resulted in an extremely thorough compilation of vintage photographs, advertisements from local publications, and detailed accounts of each breweries history.  [Book Review]

Robidoux's Town
by Robert J. Willoughby, Ph.D.

Platte Purchase Publishers, a Division of The St. Joseph Museums Inc., is proud to announce that Robidoux's Town by Robert J. Willoughby, Ph.D., has been reprinted. Robidoux's Town is a nineteenth-century history of St. Joseph, Missouri, that was first published in hardback in January of 1989. The book has been out-of-print since 2001. The new paperback edition cover features the painting "St. Joseph 1850" by Harry Wright and illustrations from the collections of The St. Joseph Museum. [Book Review]