City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer (Missouri)

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Mark Twain’s boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri, ceaselessly brings to mind romanticized images of Twain’s fictional characters Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer exploring caves and fishing from the banks of the Mississippi River. In City of Dust, Gregg Andrews tells some other story of the Hannibal area, the very real story of the exploitation and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri, an industrial town created to serve the needs of the Atlas Portland Cement Company.

In this new edition, Andrews provides an introduction detailing the have an effect on of this book since its initial publication in 1996. He writes of a new twist within the Ilasco saga, one who concerns the Continental Cement Company’s attempt, not unlike Atlas’s one hundred years in advance, to control the sale of a piece of land near its plant within the town. He explores the uneasy relationship between preservationists and the plant’s CEO and officials in St. Louis; the growing movement to preserve Ilasco’s heritage, including the building of a monument to commemorate the early residents of town; and the grassroots petition drive and letter-writing campaign that stopped the Continental Cement Company’s machinations.

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