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TWO LAKES – The Artificially Shallow and the Naturally Deep

July 20, 2014: The last Sunday in Colorado, we made a round trip drive along Trail Ridge Road from Estes Park to Grand Lake. Grand Lake – elevation 8,367 feet; formed by glaciation 30,000 years ago; estimated depth, 265 feet. … Continue reading

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FLOOD ON OSAGE RIVER AT WARSAW, MISSOURI – 1906

Small cabinet card by Moore Written on the back:  “No. 7 Warsaw Flood April 24, 1906. Duplicates 15ȼ Moore’s Gallery, Warsaw Mo.” As this photo shows, the spur railroad from Sedalia to Warsaw unwisely located its station in the floodplain.

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Warsaw on the Osage – 1905 Postcard

  Real Photo Postcard, mailed 1905 Sent by Lula G. Davis from Lincoln, Missouri to Miss Edith Belle Ordway of Haverhill, Mass., on December 6, 1905 showing “a scene in our county – at Warsaw on the Osage.” This real … Continue reading

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FAIRFIELD (MISSOURI) COVERED BRIDGE

 Real photo postcard. Penciled on back: “Fairfield Mill in July 1910” There was a mill and a small manufacturing complex at the hamlet of Fairfield, Missouri on the Pomme de Terre River built, it is said, by Judge George Alexander. … Continue reading

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The Osage River: research trip to Heritage Days in Warsaw, Missouri.

Research, for this writer, is almost the best part of a book project. For in our case that often means – road trip!  Many trips to the Ozarks tracking Father Hogan’s horseback reconnaissance for a settlement for Famine immigrants were … Continue reading

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