LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS you should know about from the
Jackson County Historical Society
Missouri Star: The Life and Times of Martha A. "Mattie" (Livingston) Lykins Bingham by Rose Ann Findlen.
This is the first comprehensive, book-length biography of Kansas City pioneer, featuring two never-before published portraits, and making extensive use of rarely viewed excerpts from her scrapbook and her original journal, "Recollections of Old Times in Kansas City," written before her death in 1890, and donated to the Historical Society in 2009. This book also uses cluster history/genealogy techniques to place Mattie within a larger context and her inspiring work to found The Lykins Institute and the first Confederate Women's and Orphans' Home.