If you love the heart of the Mid-West, here tiz! - By Jimmie Smallbear
1/27/2009
I am a professional writer, journalist, speaker and storyteller. I've sold over 800 articles nationwide and I have five books in public libraries - so I know the results of hard work and professionalism when I see and read it. That's why I always look forward to receiving the next issue of Missouri Life. The February/March issue simply floors me because it contains a wealth of the very subjects about which I love to write; the color, excitement, variety and the amazing breadth and depth of Missouri's history.
The cover says it all: "Wild West, We had it all!" How very true. I have professionally spoken to groups hundreds of times. One of the "fish-hook" phrases I use to gain the listener's attention is, "If you'll get out of your lounger and go to your yard, pick up a rock and seriously contemplate it - you'll find yourself looking at Missouri's history. For there is seldom a rock in Missouri that hasn't been splattered with blood at one time or another. The Indian wars, the coming of the White Man, the hunter/trappers, the Border Wars, The Civil War, The Bush Whackers, the Bald Knobbers, the whiskey runners, the drug runners - laws a mercy! Missouri is where the Wild West started and has lived in fame and infamy for nearly two hundred years." Thanks for the wonderful content in the February/March issue, Missouri Life!