Greene County - the Early Years

A book is entitled History of Greene County, Missouri, written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources proves fascinating reading and gaves a vivid picture of what this area was like in the first 100 years after its founding.

The book was published by the Western Historical Company in St. Louis in 1883.

There are stories of extraordinary events, of lynchings, of murders, of trouble during the Civil War and of vigilante groups that kept the peace as they saw it. They very graphically spell out the status of race relations at the time.

Some of the stories taken from that book show a very rough early Greene county.Take a look below.

• The Star Shower of 1833
• The Osage War of 1836
• The Sarcoxie War (1837)
• The Hanging of 'Mart' Danforth (1859)
• Scarce Republicans (1860)
• During the Civil War
• Tragedies of the Civil War (1861)
• The Killing of Dave Tutt by "Wild Bill" Hickok (1865)
• Reign of the Regulators (1866)
• Murder of Judge A.C. Christian (1868)
• Memphis, Springfield and Kansas City Railroad (1869)
• Murder of A. Hollingsworth by O.B. Reed (1870)
• The Crime and Hanging of "Bud" Isdell (1875)
• The Mrs. Thompson Tragedy (1878)
• The Cyclone of 1880