It All Started With A Tornado. Memories Of My Home Town: "The Prairie Queen" Appleton City, Missouri, St. Clair County

WILBUR A. ZINK

Publication: Leathers Publishing, 2004, Leawood

First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. This being copy 34. Laid-in is a promotional book mark that thanks you for buying the book. Full maroon leather, titles on front cover and spine in gold gilt, black front and rear endpapers, [14], 302 pp., foreword, illustrated, maps. The story begins with a tornado that came through St. Clair County, Missouri on Wednesday, April 19, 1916. That tornado changed the lives of many people and many new opportunities presented themselves. Chapters on local and area history, lawmen and outlaws, the James/Younger Gang, bank robberies, murders, Black community history, local residents, and much more. As new, unread copy housed in an as new matching cloth slipcase with titles stamped in gold gilt on the front panel.

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