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Online Text
Online Historical Publications
The following are available online in complete
text from the Shepard Room, Springfield-Greene County Library. They each
have descriptive tables of contents, and each site includes a keyword search.
R.
I. Holcombe, History of Greene County, Missouri, 1883
There is a chapter of the book just on the history of
Springfield:
History
of the City of Springfield, Chapter 29
Jonathan
Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck, Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri,
1915
There is a chapter of the book just on the history of
Springfield:
City
of Springfield, Chapter 21
George
S. Escott, History and Directory of Springfield and North Springfield,1878
Pictorial
and Genealogical Record of Greene County, Missouri
The
Shepard Room, Springfield-Greene County Library
This page has links to online material on the
Ozarks including songs and folktales.
The Greene
County History page includes links to the histories above,
and links to more information online about the history of Springfield
and Greene County.
Native American Histories
The Great and Little Osage and the Missouri tribes were
native to Missouri. Other Native American nations, such as the
Delaware, Shawnee, and Kickapoo had originally lived east of the
Mississippi and were forced to move west by white settlement. The
Spanish colonial government in St. Louis welcomed them in to provide a
buffer against the Osage. There was friction between the new nations
and the Osage. After Missouri was a U. S. territory, American
settlers moved in and wanted the land. Eventually, all of the nations
were removed to Kansas and to Oklahoma.
On the internet, there is a growing number of sites on these
Native American nations.
See the following site for a history of the Osage, most of
which applies to Missouri. It is taken from an online history of
Kansas, William
G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas, 1883, from
The Kansas Collection, University of Kansas.
The
Osage Nation
Early
Missouri History
Click here for links to websites on Colonial
Louisiana, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition,
Territorial Missouri, the Missouri Compromise, and early Missouri
state history.
Recommend a Link
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Springfield and Greene County history that is not linked on this page, please
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