A President, a Church and Trails West: Competing Histories in Independence, Missouri
By Unknown Author.
Description
Over the past century, three nationally significant histories have vied for space and place in Independence, Missouri. Independence was declared Zion by Joseph Smith, served as a gathering and provisioning point for trails west, and was called home by President Harry S. Truman for sixty-four years. Historian Jon E. Taylor has integrated research from newspapers, public documents, oral histories, and private papers to detail how the community has preserved and remembered these various legacies.Truman’s legacy would appear to have been secured in Independence via three significant desig...
ISBN(s)
0826218016, 9780826218018
