TABLE OF CONTENTS

PEOPLE

Frank Post's Howell Garage

John Castlio: a Pioneer's Estate

Joseph Chandler of Chandler Hill

Major Leaguer: Defiance's Own Oscar Fuhr

Dear Master William (George Mathis)

Little Mary (Mary Schierbaum)

A Walk Through Howell Prairie's Past (Othaniel and Cordelia Castlio)

A Crisis of Disease (James and Ida Krugar)

Old Bill Pease

The Man Who Slept in the Grand Piano (Hodgen Bates)
Thomas Howell
Rodham Kenner and Pauldingville

Nathan Boone and the 1820 Missouri Constitution Convention
Peter Mades and the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush
John E. Schneider, the Weaver of Hamburg

The Counts of Marthasville

James Callaway

Remembering Jim Teeters on D-Day

Ralph Sutton's Pathway to Fame

John Mason Peck

A Letter from the Yukon to Dutzow

Archer Alexander

William Sehrt, Augusta's Traitor: the Rest of the Story

EVENTS

The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 in Boone-Duden Country

The 1920 Election in Femme Osage Township

Disaster on the MKT: the Wreck of Train No. 74

A Tremendous Disturbance to Civil Life

The Murder of Paulina Duebbert

The Tornado of 1915

Early Accounts of the Ramsey Massacre
The Crash of the F84 Thunderjet
Boone-Duden Forty-Niners

The Murder of Dr. John Jones

The State of Missouri Versus Harrison (a slave)

The 1873 Lynching in "Augusta"

The St. Charles County "Gold Rush" of 1897

The 1857 Election Day Riot in Augusta

THE CIVIL WAR

The Missouri Secession Election in St. Charles County

A Civil War of Words in Boone-Duden Country

Henderson McRoberts: African-American Civil War Veteran

A Civil War Mystery

Pleasant Gibbs: 55th Massachusetts Infantry

Boone-Duden Confederates of the 2nd Missouri at Vicksburg

A Rebel to the End

A Killing by the Home Guard

Philip Heck: 49th Missouri Infantry Musician

The Well-Traveled Confederate

Some Civil War Letters of David K. Pitman and Hamilton Gamble

Slave Escapes in Boone-Duden Country

WORLD WAR I

Private Arnold Henry Niederjohann: Killed in Action

Private Harry Haferkamp: Killed in Action

The Soldier in the Cemetery (Arch Bowman)

Private Louis Frederick Siedentop: Killed in Action
William Galloway: Killed in Action
The World War One Journal of Fred Kamphoefner

MATTERS OF INTEREST

A Visit to a Post Office in 1852

Trackwalkers

A Graveyard Mystery

A Country Store Ledger

The One-Room Schools of Township 45, Range 2
The Connecting Link Telephone Company

The Bank Failures of 1931

The General Store of Femme Osage

When Tobacco Was King in St. Charles County

1860 Manufacturing in Boone-Duden Country
The Swimming Pool in the Woods
Where in the World Was Peers?
Circus!
World War II and Air Raid Drills in St. Charles County
Femme Osage Township Vineyards in 1879
A Dueling Incident in Boone-Duden Country

Cholera in Boone-Duden Country, 1849-1852

The Katy Railroad in Boone-Duden Country

My Journey to Wolkes

Animal Bounties in St. Charles County

Irish Potato Famine Immigrants in Southern St. Charles County

What if the TNT Plant Had Never Been Built?

Klondike

From Slavery to Freedom in Boone-Duden Country

Death in 1910