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Ben Jones and his son Horace “Jimmy” Jones were prominent figures in the horse racing industry from the 1930s through the 1960s. The Parnell, Missouri, natives both started racing and training horses when they were teenagers.

Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884, the oldest child of John Anderson Truman, a farmer and livestock dealer, and Martha Ellen Young Truman.

The brief existence of the Parker and Watts Circus illustrates the trials and tribulations that circuses faced in the 1930s as the rise of the radio and film industries threatened traditional forms of entertainment.

Born around 1839 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, James Jackson, more commonly known as Jim Jackson, came of age in Kentucky before moving to Texas prior to the Civil War.

During the prosperous 1920s, Parkview Amusement Park was constructed on the western bank of the Mississippi River north of St. Louis near the city’s Chain of Rocks water treatment plant.