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Host of The Show-Me Podcast

Missouri, USA
Joined April 2017
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Our latest episode of the Our Missouri Podcast continues the multi-part series on "The Ozarks," and features a conversation with Susan Croce Kelly about her @OUPress book, Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery. shsmo.org/our-missouri/seaso… #SHSMO #Missouri #ShowMeHistory #route66
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Belle Starr is a folk hero of the American Old West. Starr led a group of bandits and outlaws and was friendly with members of the Jesse James gang. Known in the media as the “Petticoat of the Plains,” her legend fueled many dime novels and Hollywood movies. #FolkloreThursday
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Part 1 of an epic 4 part series about Sitting Bull, the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre is out today on @hearluminary luminarypodcasts.com/listen/…
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#OTD in 1864, William “Bloody Bill” Anderson led a vicious raid in Centralia MO. Surviving eyewitness Sgt Goodman provided his “thrilling record,” which you can read at bit.ly/2nhDxDM. [023422-1, F554.1 G624, P373] #SHSMO #Missouri #ShowMe #ShowMeHistory #CivilWar
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Maybe Frankie would have had better luck if she listened to our podcast... #ShowMeHistory #LearnMoHistory #TheShowMe #podcastmo #mopodcasts #Missouri #Showme #PodernFamily theshowmepodcast.com/show-1/…
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Chris Cowan retweeted
There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one.
Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra says that “very famous people whose names I won’t use” want to redo Norman Lear’s ‘The Princess Bride’ bit.ly/30qHpQM
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Today's episode of #OurMissouri serves as not only the opening of Season 2, but also the start of a multi-part series on "The Ozarks." So, come along for a trip to the #Ozarks as we explore the Old Ozarks with @MissouriState prof. Brooks Blevins. shsmo.org/our-missouri/seaso… #SHSMO
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If you were worried that I wouldn't bring up the Tupac-Machiavelli connection... don't worry, I will. Part II drops next week. #ThugLife
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"God created war so that Americans would learn geography." -Mark Twain
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A British man found a US soldier's ID tag in the woods and put it in olive oil for nine months to be able to read it. Now he's looking for the family of its owner. stripes.com/news/europe/brit…
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Presenting the cover of my new book, due to be published this spring.
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The 62nd Missouri Conference on History, hosted by @LindenwoodU & sponsored by #SHSMO, will be held March 11-13, 2020. Proposals in all fields of history are invited & should be submitted no later than November 1, 2019. Learn more: bit.ly/2NUIca6. [P79] #mch19 #Missouri
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Another video has been moved from unlisted to public for your viewing pleasure! This one features the haunted Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri! youtu.be/Cj5iDyrR6oI
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#DYK that #SHSMO has over 17,000 pictures in our Digital Photograph Collection? Here are four of our favorites. What are yours? Learn more about your history at digital.shsmo.org. [P632, P164, C3888, P425] #Missouri #ShowMe #ShowMeHistory #photography #photos
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#OnThisDay in 1976, Mastodon SHS joined MoStateParks. This historic site contains an important archaeological & paleontological site, the Kimmswick Bone Bed. Learn more about this park at mostateparks.com.
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#OnThisDay in 1865, in the middle of Springfield, Missouri's market square, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true Old-West showdown. It's also one of the very few. Our American frontier history has been a little "exaggerated." #OTD
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The great people of the #ShowMe State love a good fair. From the 1904 World's Fair, to the State Fair, to County Fairs, to even more localized celebrations, Missourians show up en masse. bit.ly/2JMFbov #ChronAmParty #GoesToTheFair #SHSMO #Missouri #ShowMeHistory
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