Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Many Acts of the Small -- The Racial Politics of Reconstruction in Ralls Countyg Missouri, 1865- 1870 -- The Bald Knobbersg the Anti- Bald Knobbersg Politicsg and the Culture of Violence in the Ozarks, 1860-1890 -- Raceg Citizenshipg and the Origins of Organized Labor in Antebellum St. Louis -- Raceg Powerg and the Building Trades Industry in Postwar St. Louis -- The Failure of AlliancewPopulism in Northern Missouri -- Survival Strategies of Farm Laborers in the Missouri Bootheel, 1900- 1958 -- Constance Runcie and the Runcie Club of St. Joseph -- WomenK IdentityK and Reform in Missouri's Lead Belt, 1900- 1923 -- Prostitution and Reform in Kansas City, 1880- 1930 -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Editor.