by Carol Clark (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum, October 2009)

Reviewed by Jeffrey Smith, Professor of History, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri

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St. Louis from Village to Metropolis: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906–2006, edited and with an introduction by Louis S. Gerteis (Columbia: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009)

Reviewed by Emily Troxell Jaycox
Librarian, Missouri History Museum Read more »

Missouri’s preeminent leader of the Southern cause during the Civil War, Sterling Price was a Virginia native who came to Missouri in 1831 and prospered as a tobacco farmer, businessman, and Democratic politician. He served several terms in the Missouri House of Representatives and was chosen its speaker. He was elected to the U.S. Congress but resigned after only five months in order to participate in the Mexican War, where he led the Second Regiment of Missouri Volunteer Cavalry and later served as a brigadier general. Read more »