A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets
Past and Present
of Bates County, Missouri

Compiled by Arthur Paul Moser

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Bibliography and Acknowledgements

In compiling this Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets, Past and Present, of Bates County, Missouri, every effort has been made to include every known community.

I wish to thank the staff in the Reference Department of the Springfield-Greene County Library for providing certain rare books for examination.

Material examined includes the following:

• Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri, 1874.
• New Atlas of Missouri, 1874, Campbell.
• History of Bates County, 1883, Goodspeed.
• History of Cass County, 1883, St. Joseph Steam Printing Company.
• Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, 1901, Conard.
• The State of Missouri in 1904, Walter Williams.
• Several maps as indicated.

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