Overview :After the discovery of lead along Joplin Creek in southwest Missouri, a rowdy boomtown sprang up overnight. Named after the creek, it paid h... Read More
Overview :When lead was first discovered in southwestern Missouri around 1830, it had little value, and zinc, called "black jack," was discarded as wa... Read More
Overview :When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four,... Read More
Overview :- Marketing activity is focused on visibility music retail in-store and online- Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, music gr... Read More
Overview :- Marketing activity is focused on visibility music retail in-store and online- Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, music gr... Read More
Overview :A strange sort of pride tends to embellish infamy, like the notion that Frank and Jesse James robbed every bank in Missouri. But the citizen... Read More
Overview :The barrier between Joplin's boisterous past and its present is as flimsy as a swinging saloon door. Lisa Livingston-Martin kicks it wide op... Read More
Overview :A heartfelt and magical middle grade novel in the tradition of Tuck Everlasting and Bridge to Terabithia, about family, wishes, and the pow... Read More