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The Oasis Night Club in Central City, Missouri, was one of the last businesses westbound travelers on Route 66 could patronize before leaving the state and crossing into Kansas.

The Barnsley Brothers Cutlery Company was a manufacturer and wholesaler of knives, straight razors, scissors, and other cutting tools.

One of the shortest standard-gauge railway lines in the United States was built in Barry County, Missouri, by the Cassville and Western Railway Company (C&W) in the summer of 1896.

Sportsmen tourists in flat-bottom boats that became known as “johnboats” are the parents of Ozarks commercial tourism. They came especially from St.

Family stories and tales of the place where she grew up propelled Lucile Morris Upton into a lifelong interest in regional history.

The life of Mathias Splitlog is a classic story of a man who went from rags to riches. The son of a French father and a Wyandotte mother, Splitlog came to the area that is now Kansas City in July 1843 as a penniless twenty-one-year-old.

The House of Lords was a three-story brick building in Joplin that housed a saloon and restaurant, gaming rooms, and brothel.

Stony Dell, fourteen miles west of Rolla, was one of the central Missouri Ozarks’ premier tourist destinations on Route 66 during the mid-twentieth century.

The Yellowstone Expedition of 1818–1820 was a military and scientific excursion in which the United States hoped to begin establishing control over the western lands included in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. After early expeditions led b