Bøger af Margot Ford McMillen

A to Z Missouri is a dictionary of Missouri place names and includes more than 1300 names of counties, cities, towns, villages, creeks, rivers, river bends, lakes, hills, mountains, points, parks, etc. Each entry presents truths and traditions about place names and place history and are arranged in easy to use alphabetical order. McMillen, the author of Paris, Tightwad, and Peculiar (University of Missouri Press, 1994) presents A to Z Missouri as a book of entertainment rather than a scholarship. Each brief story is fun to read and the humorous illustrations by Dennis Murphy are delightful. However the scholarship involved in collecting and verifying these Missouri place names is evident as in her many other Missouri history titles, such as The Golden Lane and Evolution of a Missouri Asylum

While there are many biographies of important Missouri men, there are few such biographies of Missouri women, which might suggest that they did not count in history. This book helps to correct that misconception by tracing the lives of four women who played important roles in their eras.

As a companion volume to their earlier book, ""Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History"", Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson's ""Into the Spotlight"" provides the biographies of four more remarkable Missouri women. Sacred Sun, also called Mohongo, Emily Newell Blair, Josephine Baker and. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace.