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May Kennedy McCord was an Ozark folklorist, writer, musician, and radio personality whose work helped preserve and popularize the culture and traditions of the Ozarks during the twentieth century.

Fleming’s Riverside Inn overlooking Elk River in McDonald County opened in the summer of 1909.

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.