Buildings of Missouri by Osmund Overby, Carol Grove, Cole Woo... - 9780813949598

Buildings of MissouriAuthor(s): Osmund Overby, Carol Grove, Cole Woodcox\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813949598, 978-0813949598\nSynopsis\nGenerously illustrated, definitive guide to the built world of Missouri\n\n A nineteenth-century traveler once described Missouri as neither east nor west nor north nor south. It is a place of topographical transitions, delineated on the east by the Mississippi River and bisected by the Missouri River, encompassing a landscape of plains, bottomland, forests, and mountains, and home to iconic figures of American historyLaura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain, Scott Joplin, Jesse James, and Harry Truman, among themas well as explorers, settlers, enslaved persons, immigrants, migrant workers, and, to this day, people starting new lives. Missouri has an equally rich mix of architectural styles and influences. The Show Me State volume in the award-winning Buildin.