Early Days

Articles and stories of the Upper Riverways by J.L. Stoops

[Early Mills] [Early Towns] [Women Settlers] [Early Trails] [Map of Early Trails] 
[The Caddoe Indian Culture][The Osage Indian Culture] [Freight Haulers]
[Princess Dolly Dogwood] [Trails West] [Formation of Missouri Territory]
[Land for the landless] [Formation of Counties] [Request for Statehood]
[State of Wayne] [Life in the Missouri Territory]  [Missouri Enters The Union]
[Missouri Becomes A State] [Trade Moves to Santa Fe Trail] [Early Communities] 
[Arrival of Christian Faith] [Early Organization of State] 
[Shannon County] [Oregon County] 
[Texas County] [Howell County]  [Arrival of Law] 
The first Stoops to move into the Riverways area was Hugh Stoops, a circuit
riding minister who held services at Rocky Ford as early as 1848.
Hugh moved his family here about 1851. His father was
Col. William Stoops, a shoemaker by trade, from Nicholas Co., Ky.
Jacks Fork