Contents -- Introduction -- Trader William Gilliss and Delaware Migration in Southern Missouri - Lynn Morrow -- Slave Labor at the Maramec Iron Works, 1828-1850 - Barbara L. Green -- "Good Water and Wood but the Country Is a Miserable Botch" : Flatland Soldiers Confront the Ozarks - John F. Bradbury Jr. -- The Race of Improvement: Springfield Society, 1865-1881 - Charles K. Piehl -- "The City Belongs to the Local Unions" : The Rise of the Springfield Labor Movement, 1871-1912- Stephen L. McIntyre -- The Ozark Short Line Railroad: A Failed Dream - H. Ro ger Grant -- Before Bass Pro: St. Louis Sporting Clubs on the Gasconade River - Lynn Morrow -- Whose Forest Is This? : Hill Folk, Industrialists, and Government in the Ozarks - David Benac -- Under Penalty of Death: Pierce City's Night of Racial Terror - Jason Navarro -- "Our Company Feels that the Ozarks are a Good Investment" : The Pierce Pennant Tavern System - Keith A. Sculle -- Lake Placid: "A Recreational Center for Colored People in the Missouri Ozarks" - Gary R. Kremer and Evan P. Orr -- Reflections on Public Welfare in Washington County, Missouri, 1939-1941- Clarence R. Keathley -- Agricultural Change in the Western Ozarks - Milton D. Rafferty -- The Origin and Development of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Project - Stephen N. Limbaugh -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.