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From Entry Fee to “Fifty-Three”: History of Lawson’s Three County Community
Ruth Bogart Roney
The Printery, Clinton, Missouri
1970 (reprint; originally copyright 1953)
Reprint edition
Book is VG: softcover in textured tan wraps, clean and sound with light general wear and mild edge rubbing. Corners remain fairly sharp with only slight softening. Binding is secure and pages are clean and unmarked. A faint ripple to the text block is visible when viewed from the fore edge, but pages lie flat and turn easily. Overall a well-preserved copy with a bit of shelf wear consistent with age.
Printed by The Printery of Clinton, Missouri, this 1970 reprint of the 1953 work is illustrated with black and white photographs and includes period maps. The typography is straightforward and readable, typical of mid-20th-century local histories, and the volume is bound in sturdy paper wraps with a lightly textured finish. Chapters cover early settlement, churches, civic organizations, schools, fairs, wartime service, and community development in and around Lawson, Missouri.
A detailed community chronicle, this work traces Lawson’s development from frontier settlement through incorporation and into the twentieth century. It captures the texture of rural Missouri life—church founding, mills, banks, district fairs, fraternal lodges, and World War II service rolls—preserving names, institutions, and events that often appear nowhere else in print. Local histories of this specificity were typically printed in modest numbers and are increasingly difficult to locate in clean, complete condition.
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