OZARK Historic Resource Study

¹Frederick Merk, History of the Westward Movement (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), 102-103, 229-230; and Roy M. Robbins, Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776-1936 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, reprint 1962), 8-9.

²Ibid.

³Merk, History of the Westward Movement, 230 and 231; and Robbins, Our Landed Heritage, 16.

⁴Ibid.

⁵Merk, History of the Westward Movement, 234-235.

⁶Ibid., 236-238.

⁷Merk, History of the Westward Movement, 234-235; and Robbins, Our Landed Heritage, 170-171.

⁸James R. Shortridge, "The Expansion of the Settlement Frontier in Missouri," Missouri Historical Review, LXXV (October 1980): 83; and James Lee Murphy, "A History of the Southeastern Ozark Region of Missouri," (Ph.D. diss., Saint Louis University, 1982), 71.

⁹Harbert L. Clendenen, "Settlement Morphology of the Southern Courtois Hills, Missouri, 1820-1840," (Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1973), 58-61; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 71; Henry Beeson Flanner Diary, 1856, Western History Manuscript Collection—Rolla, University of Missouri—Rolla, Rolla, Missouri; and Kimberly Scott Little, "Reed Log House," National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Midwest Region, National Park Service, Omaha, Nebraska, 1990, 8-2, 8-3. A Reed log house still stands on the 114 acres of land purchased by Dr. Thomas Reed in 1857.

¹⁰Clendenen, "Settlement Morphology," 61; and Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 71-72.

¹¹Rt. Rev. John Joseph Hogan, On the Mission in Missouri, 1857-1868 (Glorieta, New Mexico: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., reprint 1976), 39-41, 58-59; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 72-74.

¹²Hogan, Mission in Missouri, 59-60.

¹³Ibid., 60-68; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 74-75; and Russel L. Gerlach, Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins With a Wall Map (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 27.

¹⁴Merk, History of the Westward Movement, 216-219.

¹⁵Ibid., 217-222.

¹⁶Ibid

¹⁷Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 113-115; and Paul W. Gates, "The Railroads of Missouri, 1850-1870," Missouri Historical Review, XXVI (January 1932): 128-135.

¹⁸Gates, "Railroads of Missouri," 131-135; and Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 114-115.

¹⁹Eunice Pennington, History of the Ozarks, (Point Lookout, Mo.: School of the Ozarks Press, 1971), 32; and Martha M. Woods, "Early Roads in Missouri," (M. A. thesis, University of Missouri, 1936), 104-105.

²⁰Pennington, History of the Ozarks, 32; and John F. Bradbury, Jr., "'This War is Managed Mighty Strange': The Army of Southeastern Missouri, 1862-1863," unpublished work, Western History Manuscript Collection-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri, see map.

²¹Bradbury, "Army of Southeastern Missouri," see map.

²²Clendenen, "Settlement Morphology," 143, 155-157.

²³Ibid,, 152, 155.

²⁴Clendenen, "Settlement Morphology," 157; Bradbury, "The Army of Southeastern Missouri," 3; and Cynthia R. Price, Reported Historic Period Sites in Ozark National Scenic Riverways, 1981/1982. Submitted to the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1983.

²⁵Bradbury, "The Army of Southeastern Missouri," 16-17

²⁶Clendenen, "Settlement Morphology," 157.

²⁷Ibid,, 158-159.

²⁸U. S. Census 1850, Department of the Interior, Statistical View of the United States being a Compendium of the Seventh Census, Washington, 1854, 266-273; and U. S. Census 1860, Department of the Interior, Population of the United States in 1860, Washington, 1864, 289-297.

²⁹Gerlach, Settlement Patterns in Missouri, 20-28.

³⁰Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 47-52; Gerlach, Settlement Patterns in Missouri, 21 and foldout map; and Gene Oakley, The History of Carter County (Van Buren, Missouri: J. G. Publications, 1970), 34, 39; In fact, by 1861, the present-day county organization of Missouri was in place. Fourteen of the sixteen new counties formed after 1850, however, were located in southern Missouri.

³¹Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 49-52; and "Missouri History not Found in Textbooks," Missouri Historical Review, XXII (April 1928): 409-410.