SUBJECT GUIDE

to the

NEWSLETTER OF THE PHELPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Published by the

Phelps County Historical Society

P. O. Box 1861

Rolla, Missouri 65402-1861

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Photocopies of any Newsletter may be ordered

For fifteen cents per page, plus first class postage.

Issue Contents

Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1982 Local place names

[6 pages]

Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 1982) Notes by Margaret Beulah Fraizer

Rolla and the Civil War

[9 pages]

Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 1982) Sightseeing in the St. James Area

Two Civil War Letters From Rolla

Items From Licking

Origin of Place Name “Jerome”

[8 pages]

Vol. II, No. 1 (February 1983) Henry Carroll Civil War Letters

History of Alpha Kappa House

More On the Naming of Rolla

George Coppedge and His Whereabouts

[17 pages]

Vol. II, No. 2 (May 1983) More On Naming of Rolla

[9 pages]

Vol. II, No. 3 (September 1983) Fort Dette In Rolla

George W. Kohler Civil War Letters

Naming of Doolittle, Mo.

[14 pages]

Vol. II, No. 4 (December 1983) Origin of Name “Toad Suck,” Ark.

[5 pages]

Vol. III, No. 1 (March 1984) “Secure the Shadow”: Civil War

Photographers in Phelps County

Rolla and Missouri Place Names

Self-Guided Tour Map of Rolla

[10 pages]

Vol. III, No. 2 (May 1984) Pulaski County Author Mabel Mottaz

[4 pages]

Vol. III, No. 3-4 (September 1984) Naming of Rolla

[41 pages]

Vol. IV, No. 1-2 (January 1985) The Parker Hall Mural

Winter Quarters at Camp Rolla

Missouri Place Names

[21 pages]

Vol. IV, No. 3-4 (May 1985) John Webber Stories

More Missouri Place Names

Samuel A. Strawhun

More on Fort Dette

Rolla’s Frisco Depot

[18 pages]

Vol. V, No. 1-2 (April 1986) Newburg’s Lead and Zinc Mining Boom

Naming of the North-South Road in Rolla

[14 pages]

Vol. V, No. 3-4 (October 1986) The Civil War Letters of Lorenzo B. Hickok

[brother of “Wild Bill” Hickok]

[16 pages]

Vol. VI, No. 1-2 (March 1987) Historical Areas In Phelps County

Frisco Steam Locomotive 1501

East German Spies in Rolla

[22 pages]

Vol. VI, No. 3 (June 1987) Union or Disunion: The Letters

of Allen B. Johnson

[34 pages]

Vol. VI, No. 4 (September 1987) History of John Webber and the Webber Family

[42 pages]

Vol. VII, No. 1 (April 1988) Obituary of Walter W. Snelson

Elkins Chapel Methodist Church

[9 pages]

Vol. VIII, No. 2 (June 1988) The Civil War Letters of Capt. Alfred B. Cree

22^nd Iowa Infantry

[34 pages]

Vol. VIII, No. 1 (June 1989) The First Phelps County Jail, 1860-1912

Freedmen’s Schools For Rolla

[10 pages]

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New Series No. 1 (March 1990) Building of the Phelps County Courthouse

Extracts From County Court Minutes

Proposals To Build a New Phelps County

Courthouse

[14 pages]

New Series No. 2 (September 1990) The Railroad Comes To Phelps County

[16 pages]

New Series No. 3 (June 1991) The Founding of Newburg, 1882-1885

[11 pages]

New Series No. 4 (December 1991) The “Frisco” In Phelps County

[11 pages]

New Series No. 5 (April 1992) “Bushwhacker” Bill Wilson and “Secesh”

Sympathizers During the Civil War

[12 pages]

New Series No. 6 (October 1992) Summers Past In Phelps County

[12 pages]

New Series No. 7 (April 1993) Russell Brothers Circus: Winter Quarters,

Rolla, Mo.

[34 pages]

New Series No. 8 (October 1993) The Early Years of Route 66

[18 pages]

New Series No. 9 (April 1994) Route 66 East to West: A Self-Guided Tour

Through Phelps County

[28 pages]

New Series No. 10 (October 1994) “Hunting Bushwhackers For a Living”: The

Second Wisconsin Cavalry In the

District of Rolla, 1863-1864

[16 pages]

New Series No. 11 (April 1995) Phelps County During World War Two

[14 pages]

New Series No. 12 (October 1995) Phelps County in the Late 1940s

[14 pages]

New Series No. 13 (April 1996) Basketville: A Roadside Community on Route 66

[18 pages]

New Series No. 14 (October 1996) The Fraizer Wagon Story

[16 pages]

New Series No. 15 (April 1997) From Knobview to Rosati

[12 pages]

New Series No. 16 (October 1997) The Ozark Short Line: Electric Railway from Rolla

to Texas County

[12 pages]

New Series No. 17 (April 1998) Bluebacks, Graybacks, and Greenbacks: Excerpts

From the Maramec Iron Works Time Books,

1865-1870

[14 pages]

New Series No. 18 (October 1998) The Arlington Hearth: St. Louisans, Perry Andres,

and Commercial Tourism

[18 pages]

New Series No. 19 (April 1999) The Civil War Letters of Moses Jasper Bradford,

Phelps County Confederate and One of

the “Immortal 600”

[22 pages]

New Series No. 20 (October 1999) Before Bass Pro: Gasconade River Sporting Clubs

[38 pages]

New Series No. 21 (April 2000) Growing Up in Jerome

[16 pages]

New Series No. 22 (October 2000) The Civil War Letters of Captain Douglas R.

Bushnell, 13^th Illinois Infantry

[18 pages]

New Series No. 23 (April 2001) Phelps County’s Only Hanging: The Crime,

Trials, and Execution of George Bohannon

[18 pages]

New Series No. 24 (October 2001) Taking the Waters: Mineral Spring Developments

at Vichy Springs and Rolla in the 1880s

[14 pages]

New Series No. 25 (April 2002) Atlantic City In Phelps County: The Gasconade

River Resorts at Arlington and Jerome

[18 pages]

New Series No. 26 (October 2002) Personal Memoirs of a Missouri Confederate

Soldier, by David F. Lenox

[26 pages]

New Series No. 27 (April 2003) Provost Marshal Documents from the District of

Rolla

[18 pages]

New Series No. 28 (October 2003) Greetings from Edgar Springs

[14 pages]

New Series No. 29 (April 2004) Spring Creek and the Springdale Academy Quilt
[18 pages]

New Series No. 30 (October 2004) Honorable Frank Farris: “Making a Bad Idea Look

Good, and a Good One Better”

[28 pages]

New Series No. 31 (April 2005) Tie-Hackers, Tie-Rafting, and the Railroad

Crosstie Industry at Arlington and Jerome

[18 pages]

New Series No. 32 (October 2005) Stories That Didn’t Get Away: The Interviews by

Dr. Clair V. and Bonita H. Mann

[22 pages]