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6. What is his name?
A. Gen. John J. Pershing.
[References: Harold McCracken, Pershing, the Story of a Great Soldier (New
York, 1931); C. H. Farrell, Incidents in the Life of General John J. Pershing (Chicago,
1918); Pershing Memorial Commission, A Great American (Lincoln, Neb., 1940);
John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War (New York, 1931); Everett T.
Tomlinson, The Story of General Pershing (New York, 1920).]
A MISSOURIAN1 S DOLLS AMUSED A GENERATION
OF AMERICAN CHILDREN
Released April 11, 195k
A charming and witty Missouri girl, famed as an artist, writer,
and poet, created a doll character that swept America with its popularity during the first quarter of this century. Do you know her
name?
1.
Where in Missouri did she
live?
A. Her home was deep in
the Ozark hills near Branson, at "Bonnie Brook," the
house her father built soon
after he brought his family
to Missouri. The artist first
saw her new home in 1893,
when she was nineteen and
made the two-day trip to it
over backwoods roads from
Springfield with team and
wagon. During the years of
her greatest fame she lived in
many of the great cities of
the world, but she always
came home to the Missouri
Courtesy of Mrs. Louis F. Meeker
This Ozark Artist Found Fame and
Fortune in Making Character Dolls
Ozarks.
2.
What was her early artistic experience?
A. She had enjoyed drawing since childhood and at thirteen
had her work published in a Nebraska newspaper. She was
self-taught, but her illustrations were soon selling to national
magazines and city newspapers. She was married and went to
New York in 1896, where she worked for seven years illustrating
