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"Examines the efforts of Independence, Missouri, to preserve and balance competing elements of the city's history: as the hometown of President Harry S. Truman; as the site where Joseph Smith established the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; and as the historic gathering place for western emigration"--Provided by publisher.

Historic preservation --- Historic sites --- Pioneers --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Heritage places, Historic --- Heritage sites, Historic --- Historic heritage places --- Historic heritage sites --- Historic places --- Historical sites --- Places, Historic --- Sites, Historic --- Archaeology --- History --- Historic buildings --- Monuments --- World Heritage areas --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural property --- Conservation and restoration --- History. --- Protection --- Truman, Harry S., --- Smith, Joseph, --- Truman, Harry, --- Trumėn, G., --- Dulumen, --- Trouman, Charry S., --- טרומאן, הארי ס., --- Truman, H. --- Homes and haunts --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Community of Christ --- Church of Christ (Remnant Group) --- Saints Church --- RLDS --- R.L.D.S. --- Reorganiserte Jesu Kristi kirke av siste dagers hellige --- Jesu Kristi gjenorganiserade Kirke af Sidste Dages Hellige --- Independence (Mo.) --- Independence, Mo. --- Truman, Harry --- Trumėn, G. --- Dulumen --- Trouman, Charry S.

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This companion volume to Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time (Gorgias Press, 2023) gives examples of colophons from the Ancient Near East up to the pre-modern world, from different traditions - Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Persian. Colophons typically provide their readers with the historical context in which the scribe produced his or her work: Who was the scribe? When and where was the manuscript produced? For whom was it produced and who paid for it? But colophons are far more rich. They are literary works in their own right, having a style and rhetoric independent of the main literary text of the manuscript. Some are assertive, providing contextual data about the scribe/publisher and manuscript/book; others are expressive, demonstrating the scribe's feelings and wishes. Some are directive, asking the reader for an action; others declarative, providing all sorts of statements about the scribe/publisher or even the reader. The latter sometimes provide historical facts otherwise lost to history: wars, earthquakes, religious events, and legal agreements. Through the colophons and translations in this volume we hope to present the colophon as a literary genre, and as literature to be studied, read and enjoyed.

Colophons of manuscripts. --- Manuscripts --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- History.