
Excelsior Springs Museum & Archives
Shoal Creek Living History Museum
Freedom's Frontier National Historic Area
The Faded Page Recommended Reading
Local Authors
Discovering Historic Clay County, Missouri by the Clay County Archives and Historical Library
History of Clay County, Missouri by the National Historical Company, 1885
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General Reading
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine by Kelley Fanto Deetz
The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook by Tom Bernadin
A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker
I'll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Anita Silvey
Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Prairie Kitchen Sampler by E. Mae Fritz
Preserving on Paper: Seventeeth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books by Kristine Kowalchuk
Wicked Women of Missouri by Larry Wood