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MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI Copyright © 1995 by The State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201 JAMES W. GOODRICH EDITOR LYNN WOLF GENTZLER ASSOCIATE EDITOR CHRISTINE MONTGOMERY VOLUME LXXXIx RESEARCH ASSISTANT OCTOBER, 1994- ANN L. ROGERS RESEARCH ASSISTANT JULY, 1995 CONTRIBUTORS VOLUME LXXXIX, Nos. 1, 2, 3, AND 4 ANDREWS, GREGG, associate professor, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos. BRADBURY, JOHN F., JR., senior manuscript specialist, University of Missouri- Rolla. CHRISTENSEN, LAWRENCE O., professor, University of Missouri-Rolla. Dyer, THOMAS G., professor, University of Georgia, Athens. GuRLEY, BILL J., associate professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock. HARRIS, CHARLES F., attorney, Wichita, Kansas. Hauck, GEorGE F. W., professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City. KELLER, KENNETH W., professor, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia. LONG, MICHAEL, adjunct instructor, Webster University, St. Louis. MITCHELL, WILLIAM I., assistant professor, State University of New York College, Buffalo. PioTt, STEVEN L., professor, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion. Pitcock, CYNTHIA DEHAVEN, adjunct assistant professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock. Ports, Louis W., associate professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City. SAuM, Lewis O., professor, University of Washington, Seattle. STEVENS, LINDA WALKER, writer and viniculture historian, Hermann. STEWARD, Dick, professor, Lincoln University, Jefferson City. CONTENTS VOLUME LXXXIX, Nos. 1, 2, 3, AND 4 CATALYST FOR TERROR: THE COLLAPSE OF THE WOMEN’S PRISON IN KANSAS City. By Charles F- Harris FRONTIER BRIDGE BUILDING: THE HANNIBAL BRIDGE AT KANSAS City, 1867-1869. By Louis W. Potts and George F. W. Hauck GEORGE ENGELMANN AND THE LURE OF FRONTIER SCIENCE. By Michael Long “T ACTED FROM PRINCIPLE”: WILLIAM MARCELLUS MCPHEETERS, CONFEDERATE SURGEON. By Cynthia DeHaven Pitcock and Bill J. Gurley IMMIGRANT CEMENT WORKERS: THE STRIKE OF 1910 IN ILASCO, Missour!. By Gregg Andrews JOHN SMITH T AND THE WAY WEST: FILIBUSTERING AND EXPANSION ON THE MISSOURI FRONTIER. By Dick Steward JOSEPH W. FOLK AND THE “MISSOURI IDEA”: THE 1904 GOVERNOR’S RACE IN Missouri. By Steven L. Piott THE MAKING OF A SUPERIOR IMMIGRANT: GEORGE HUSMANN, 1837-1854. By Linda Walker Stevens MERCHANDISING NATURE: THE H. J. WEBER AND SONS NURSERY. By Kenneth W. Keller MIssourI WINTER: A SEASON TO CELEBRATE—AND SURVIVE. .....0-----e00000 184 “A Most UNEXAMPLED EXHIBITION OF MADNESS AND BRUTALITY”: JUDGE LYNCH IN SALINE COUNTY, MIssourI, 1859. PARTS 1 AND 2. By Thomas G. Dyer. 269, 367 PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR [IN Missour!i. By Lawrence O. Christensen “SOLOMON BURCH’S FIGHTING EDITOR”: AN EARLY POEM OF EUGENE FIELD. By Lewis O. Saum “THIS WAR IS MANAGED MIGHTY STRANGE”: THE ARMY OF SOUTHEASTERN MissourI, 1862-1863. By John F. Bradbury, Jr......... 28 WILLIAM FRANCIS ENGLISH: EDUCATOR AND CIVIC ACTIVIST. By William I. Mitchell