Jackson County Historical Society

Archives & Research Library

 

OUR WISH LIST

OF BOOKS NEEDED

FOR THE RESEARCH LIBRARY

(8 April 2008; refresh your browser to make sure you have the most current version)

 

Our collection of local history-related books on the Research Library shelves is continually expanding because of generous donations.

We have nearly 2,000 titles and new books are being published all the time!

 

Unfortunately, we do not have a budget to purchase collections, so we have a creative way you might help us.

Because kind folks want to help us (but they might not necessarily want to give us cash for an undefined use),

we would like you to consider either donating local history-related books to our non-circulating Research Library,

OR providing us with funds to purchase them.

 

Here is a list of books that we have found out about that we do not yet have.

There are MANY OTHERS we do not know about, so please check with us to see if we may acquire

LOCAL HISTORY SPECIFIC books that you want to find a good home for. Our contact information is at the bottom of the page.

 

Here are titles we desire to acquire for our specialized Research Library. Thank You in advance for donating the book(s), OR giving us the resources to buy them.

Estimated Cost to Purchase

A to Z Missouri: The Dictionary of Missouri Place Names by Margot Ford McMillen

$20.00

Absolute Barbeque: From the Kansas City Barbeque Inner Circle. Old Market Press, 1993.

$20.00

Absolutely Kansas City by Lisa Waterman Gray, 1995. Showcase Publications.

$20.00

Adventures of a Tramp Printer: 1880-1890 by John Edward Hicks

$20.00

Afro-American Blue Ridge Cemetery  An Index of Afro-American Blue Ridge Cemetery located at 2640 South Blue Ridge Boulevard, Kansas City, MO., Vol. 1., 1925-1950.

$30.00

Aftermath of the Civil War, The: Based on Invetigation of War Claims. Britton, Wiley.

$50.00

Alias Charley Hart: William Clarke Quantrill in Lawrence Kansas 1860. Independence, MO: Two Trails Publishing, 2003. 15p. Harris, Charles F.

$10.00

American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture and Public Art 2000 edition

$30.00

Annals of Kansas City (periodical of the Missouri Valley Historical Society), need Vol.2, 1925 and beyond (HAVE Vol.1, Nos. 1-4, 1921-1924)

$50.00

Annals of Rotary in Kansas City, Missouri 1910-1964.Kansas City, Mo. : Rotary Club no. 13, 1964. (have 1942 history)

$50.00

Art is Upon the Town: Kansas City's Public Art

$40.00

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

$20.00

Battle of Lexington: Fought In and About the City of Lexington reprint of 1903 edition (or original)

$30.00

Battle of the Blue by James W. Steele

$20.00

Battle of Westport 2005 Calendar (KC Star Books)

$15.00

Best Seat in the House: Comprehensive Guide to all Theaters in the Greater Metropolican Region of Kansas City by Victor Oddo. National Pub. 1996

$20.00

Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 1956 by Henry F. Whitney and Elsie Rathburn Whitney. 151 p.

$20.00

Black Baseball in Kansas City by Larry Lester. 2000. Arcadia.

$20.00

Black Information Guide on Kansas City. Kansas City Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1990.

$20.00

Border Bandits: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws JESSE AND FRANK JAMES and their BANDS OF HIGHWAYMEN, by J. W. Buel. Originally published 1880

$80.00

Border Outlaws: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Most Noted Bandits of Ancient or Modern Times, THE YOUNGER BROTHERS, JESSE AND FRANK JAMES and THEIR COMRADES IN CRIME, by J. W. Buel; Originally published 1882.

$80.00

Brand Book, Vol. 27, No 2. Summer 1990.  "Ravenous Monsters of Society": The Early Exploits of the James Gang, by Robert J. Wybrow. Brand Book is a publication of the English Westerners Society (see www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk)

$30.00

Bushwacker. Arthur, George Clinton. Rolla, MO: Rolla Printing Company, 1938. 108p. Story of Bill Wilson.

$50.00

Bushwackers of the Border: The Civil War Period in Western Missouri. Nevada, MO: Vernon County Historical Society, 1980. 62p. Brophy, Patrick.

$30.00

Bushwackers of the Border: The Civil War Period in Western Missouri: A Summary and Appraisal. Second, Revised Edition. Nevada, MO: Bushwacker Museum, Vernon County Historical Society, 2000. 92p. Brophy, Patrick.

$50.00

Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History by Margot Fort McMillen and Heather Roberson [about Nell Quinlan Donnelly Reed aka. Nelly Don]

$30.00

Campell's Gazetteer of Missouri by R. A. Campbell, 1875.

$20.00

Cavaliers of the brush : Quantrill and his men by Banasik, Michael E.

$30.00

Cavaliers of the Brush: Quantrill And His Men. Banasik, Michael, editor. Iowa City, IA: Camp Pope Bookshop, 2003. 256p.

$30.00

Central Lights: History of Central Presbyterian Church. Helen Gordon. 1999.

$20.00

Church of the Nazarine 75th Anniversary Assembly, Kansas City District.

$20.00

Civil War in Missouri: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006. University of Missouri Press, 2006.

$20.00

Civil War in the Ozarks   Steele, Phillip W. [includes Quantrill information]

$30.00

Civil War on the Border. Third edition, revised. Ottawa, KS: Kansas Heritage Press, 1994. Two volumes. Reprint of 1899 edition by Putnam's. Britton, Wiley.

$30.00

Civil War Sites and Battlefields in Missouri. Fayette, MO: Missouri Life, 2004. 152p. Bartels, Carolyn.

$30.00

Claims by Missouri for Compensation fo Enlisted Slaves. By Rudina Kramer Mallory.

$20.00

Cole Younger: Last of the Great Outlaws by Homer Croy

$20.00

Confederate Veteran magazine Volume 1 1893

$35.00

Confederate Veteran magazine's Obituary Index

$20.00

Connect with Kansas City: Ways to Engage in Community by Sandy Coldsnow James, 2001

$20.00

Corporate Kansas City: Master Planning Kansas City (Ingram's, Vol.2, 2004-2005) (need Vol. 1, too)

$30.00

Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005: A History and Comprehensive Registry of Legal Executions, Pardons and Commutations. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc. Publishers, 2006). Frazier, Harriet C.

$50.00

Desperate Measures: Jesse James and the Klan Battles of Reconstruction By Ralph & Julie Ganis, Jerry D. Shouse, Jr.., and Matthew C. Bumgarner. Tarheel Press, 2007

$20.00

Development of the Kansas City Theatre from 1856-1871 by Susann Kaslaitis-Townley, 1995.

$20.00

Divided Loyalties: The Border States of the Upper South, Their Cultural Heritage and Their Divided Civil War Loyalties by Jack T. Hutchinson

$40.00

Downtown Corridor Development Strategy, Kansas City, Mo.: Prepared for the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City by Sasaki Assoc. 2001.

$20.00

Early Jackson County Missouri: The Mormon Settlement on the Big Blue River: A Guided Tour Through Time by Ronald E. Romig, 1996. Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation. 4th printing. ISBN 0-9720011-2-2

$10.00

Encyclopedia of Quantrill's Guerrillas. Evening Shade, AR: R. M. Lankford, 1999. 408p. Lankford, Rose Mary, compiler.

$40.00

Family maps of Jackson County, Missouri    1st ed., deluxe ed. By Boyd, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan)

$50.00

Fifth Season: General "Jo" Shelby, the Great Raid of 1863. Independence, MO: Two Trails Publishing, 2001. 131p. Scott, Mark E.

$20.00

Fight for Missouri by Thomas Snead reprint of 1886 vol.

$20.00

First Protestant Osage Missions, The: 1820-1837 by William W. Graves (Oswego, Ks.: The Carpenter Press, 1949)

$20.00

First supplement to the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri / Benjamin Frankling Bush & Cameron Mann. [Mo.? : s.n., ca. Feb. 10, 1885?]  8 pages long. WE HAVE THE FLORA OF JACKSON COUNTY.

$95.00

Flags of Civil War Arkansas and Missouri. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2004. Dedmondt, Glenn.

$30.00

Forgotten Men: Missouri State Guard. Shawnee Mission, KS: Two Trails Publishing, 1995. 458p Bartels, Carolyn M.

$50.00

Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisian Before Lewis and Clark by Carl J. Ekberg

$40.00

Frontier Freighter: Alexander Majors: Great Heartlanders Series

$15.00

General Price's Letter and Order Book, 1861: Missouri State Guard

$15.00

General, You Have Made a Mistake

$40.00

Generals in Blue by Ezra J. Warner

$40.00

General's In Gray: The Lives of the Confederate Commanders by Bruce S. Allderdice (see also "More Generals in Gray") (Have Ezra J. Warner's title of Generals in Gray)

$40.00

Grain Valley Cemetery

$30.00

Great Cole Younger & Frank James Historical Wild West Show by John Koblas

$20.00

Great flood of 1903, The: being a graphic story of how two mad rivers, the Missouri and the Kaw, deluged Kansas City and its suburbs / by W.R. Hill. Kansas City, Mo. : Enterprise Pub. Co., 1903.

$60.00

Greater Kansas City Official Yearbook, 1904-1905 by james Donohue

$20.00

Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, 1862
by Authors: Bruce Nichols Released: March, 2004 McFarland & Company

$50.00

Guerrillas, Unionists and Violence by Daniel E. Sutherland

$25.00

Guide to Jewish Life: Vision of the 21st Century, Our Jewish Community's Bright Future. Sun Publications. 1999.

$20.00

Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing About their Lives, 1820-1920 by Carla Waal and Barbara Oliver Korner

$25.00

Heartland Heroes by Ken Hatfield

$40.00

Higher education of African Americans in Kansas City, Missouri, The: a history of Lincoln Junior College, 1936-1954 / by Marvin Ray Aaron. 1999

$40.00

Hiking Kansas City: The Comprehensive Guide to More than 100 Hickin and Walking Trails in the Kansas City Area by William B. Eddy. Pebble Pub. 2001.

$20.00

Historic and prehistoric cultural resources of the Blue Springs and Longview Lakes, Jackson County, Missouri / compiled by Kenneth L. Brown ; contributing authors: Kenneth Brown ... [et al.]. 1977; 229 p.

$60.00

Historic Photos of Kansas City by Lara Copeland ISBN 1596522895 (hardcover)

$40.00

Historic preservation in Kansas City : a rough draft report / prepared by Tim Motzer for the City Development Department. [Kansas City, Mo.? : City Development Department], 1973.