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PREFATORY NOTE.

In the preparation of this volume the following works have been found of service, though it is proper to add that the list is by no means complete, and that it does not include any of the authoritative publications that have found their way into the newspapers and magazines of the day.

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Narrative and Critical History of

The writer desires also to acknowledge his obligations to Messrs. Oscar W. Collet, of the Missouri Historical Society, John N. Dyer, of the Mercantile Library of St. Louis, General James Harding, Railroad Commissioner of the State, and to Alfred Carr, of the Insurance Department; to Ex-Governors Thomas C. Fletcher and Charles H. Hardin, General D. M. Frost of the Con