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THE VILLAGE OF BAGNELL, MISSOURI
Photograph, 1920s The village of Bagnell, Missouri, was a little railhead along the river used mostly for unloading railroad ties that had been rafted down the Osage. There were plans for the railroad to cross the river at Bagnell, but … Continue reading
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HA HA TONKA LAKE AND DAM
2 Real Photo postcards by Strathman Photo Both postcards have been sent, postmarked Linn Creek, but the dates are obscure – probably 1930s. The exact origin of the low dam that created Ha Ha Tonka Lake is not clear. It’s … Continue reading
Steamboats Remembered
Steamboats ran up the Osage as far as Osceola when the river was high. Tuscumbia, county seat of Miller County, was a regular stop – a fact commemorated today in this plaque on the new county courthouse. [hr]
OSAGE RIVER BLUFFS NEAR OSCEOLA
Real photo postcard, Osceola Missouri, 1913 The bluffs along the Osage may not have been as spectacular as the larger bluffs along New York’s Hudson, but they excited a similar esthetic appreciation in the writer of an 1888-something booklet extolling … Continue reading
Mansion South Side of Linn Creek
Real photo postcard Atop a small hill is a large frame house with an encircling porch (“veranda” they might have called it). In Kansas City or St. Louis, this would probably not have been considered a mansion, but in the … Continue reading
Foster, Missouri Railroad Station and Handcar
Cabinet card of Foster, Missouri, circa 1910 The watershed of the upper Osage/Marais des Cygnes, Little Osage and Marmaton rivers is more crisscrossed by railroads than that of the main Osage and contains a number of much-diminished towns like Foster. … Continue reading
FORT OSAGE MOVIE
Movie Lobby Card, 1952 Fort Osage, a 72 minute B movie from Monogram Studio,has Red Cameron guiding a wagon train through Indian Territory. The Osages are unhappy with the Anglo-Saxon immigrants because of the treating-violating proclivities of the white men. … Continue reading
DEATH OF THE SCHELL CITY BRIDGE
Just north and west of Schell City, Missouri, down the old “River Road” are the ruins of an iron truss bridge that for a hundred years spanned the Osage River, connecting Schell City and Rockville. It’s not far from where … Continue reading