History tv all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. While in springfield, missouri, we took a driving tour of the city with the executive director, john sellars. We are driving around the square here in springfield. This Public Square is interesting. It is designed with streets coming into it in the center. Kind of rare. Most come in on the corners. It was designed by one of the rounders of springfield who came here in 1830 with his family. He wanted this to be the county seat of the newly designated Greene County in southwest missouri. So he donated 50 acres of land , and the city sold 48 of the acres to get enough money to get build a courthouse. These two acres that remain were the town square. They built the courthouse in the center of the square, that became the site of the county seat. Kind of got things started here in 1835. In 1838, the city was chartered. It all came about because of what we are going to go by now, an Historical Marker in the corner of the building on water stre
Hosting us this evening. A big round of applause. [applause] some great partner ships with them over the year and. How many of you is your first time here . Okay. Thats a great sign. Those who just raised your hand please come back and visit the place. All great exhibitions. Those who did not raise your hand you know what a special place this is in our community on. June 6th, the annual she tack would event is coming back, if you dont know what it is, its living history, people and usually academics bringing history to life. This is years theme is the chisolm trail. Its free and open at the think. At tulsa history. Org. If you have not been there before, check it out. If you have been you know how great it is. A couple of other fun thing is wanted to mention. Thank you to friends at the barbecue for all the beautiful ribs. [applause] and we have a lot of fun things this year. Dont want to go through the whole list. You can find out more at book smart tulsa. Com. Everything from David S
Hosting us this evening. A big round of applause. [applause] some great partner ships with them over the year and. How many of you is your first time here . Okay. Thats a great sign. Those who just raised your hand please come back and visit the place. All great exhibitions. Those who did not raise your hand you know what a special place this is in our community on. June 6th, the annual she tack would event is coming back, if you dont know what it is, its living history, people and usually academics bringing history to life. This is years theme is the chisolm trail. Its free and open at the think. At tulsa history. Org. If you have not been there before, check it out. If you have been you know how great it is. A couple of other fun thing is wanted to mention. Thank you to friends at the barbecue for all the beautiful ribs. [applause] and we have a lot of fun things this year. Dont want to go through the whole list. You can find out more at book smart tulsa. Com. Everything from David S
Notorious incidents, he also mentioned the followup and i probably will not have time to get to that. But i will have copies of both books for anybody interested. As the name suggests, the book is about murders and shootouts and anything notorious that happened in the ozarks. In some cases, slightly outside the ozarks. The timeframe is from the and of the civil war up through the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s, with one exception about the very last story of something that happened in 1950. But it covers the gangster era. I would like to say, if there is any other thing that i tried to develop in the theory is something jeremy touched on. The idea is that the old west was not just kansas and arizona territory and places like that, particularly in the years immediately after the civil war, like from 18651875 and 1880. There was a lot of things that happened in missouri and the ozarks and we were very much part of the wild west. The first chapter in my book is about while bill hanco
Notorious incidents, he also mentioned the followup and i probably will not have time to get to that. But i will have copies of both books for anybody interested. As the name suggests, the book is about murders and shootouts and anything notorious that happened in the ozarks. In some cases, slightly outside the ozarks. The timeframe is from the and of the civil war up through the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s, with one exception about the very last story of something that happened in 1950. But it covers the gangster era. I would like to say, if there is any other thing that i tried to develop in the theory is something jeremy touched on. The idea is that the old west was not just kansas and arizona territory and places like that, particularly in the years immediately after the civil war, like from 18651875 and 1880. There was a lot of things that happened in missouri and the ozarks and we were very much part of the wild west. The first chapter in my book is about while bill hanco