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Time has flown by again - and it’s hard to believe that we are in the holiday season of 2007! The past year has been of many places and many faces for us with some rainy weekends, some hot as blazes weekends, and many, many fantastic weekends just perfect for meeting our friends and customers, old and new!!! For that, we thank you all!
Now - may we make a few suggestions for gifts and stocking stuffers for our living history friends?
The Border War of Missouri and Kansas continues to get attention. Even the 2007 meeting of the football teams from Missouri and Kansas brought out the media to learn about the true origins of the term “Border War” - and for the most part, they got it right!!! So, we’ve added another new book: I Knew Frank...I Wish I’d Known Jesse, written by Samuel Anderson Pence. Mr. Pence was born in 1885 and died in 1971 - and he worked on this manuscript during most of his life. He untangles the intricate web of the James family relationships and 19th century Clay County through his personal recollections, along with those of his parents, grandparents, and guerrilla great-uncles who lived in the era. $28.95. Shop our Border War Books.
Missouri Life magazine has just issued a new book, The Civil War’s First Blood: Missouri 1854-1861. Heavily illustrated with original photographs, sketches, drawings and maps, along with color photographs of historic sites, reenactments, etc., it is a chronological history of the Border area. $29.95. Shop our Border War Books.
Steve Cottrell’s Haunted Ozark Battlefields is proving to be a very popular new work. This is a compilation of sights, photos, and stories he has gathered over 20 years of reenacting. $12.95. Shop our Books section.
We’ve added several other new titles over the past year, including
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Jo Shelby’s Iron Brigade
Jesse James was My Father
Missouri Treasures and Civil War Sites
The Families of Charles Lee and Henry Washington Younger
Jim Cummins’ Book Written by Himself
War Crimes against Southern Civilians
The Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand
Marching with the First Nebraska
A Compendium of Field Music (a reprint of the 1862 official manual)
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Of course, what would the new year be without the latest Mort Kunstler calendars? The 2008 editions of the Blue and Grey calendar and the Legends in Grey calendar are in stock for only $14.95 each.
Introduced earlier this year, the Missouri in the Civil War deck of cards not only lets you play card games, you can refresh your memory and learn Missouri’s rich Civil War history! $12 a deck.
We always have a wide selection of 19th century civilian clothing available for everyone: gentlemen, ladies, young ladies and young gentlemen:
 For the Gentlemen, we have some of our men’s civilian working vests marked down to $35 until the end of the year.(Shop our Outlet and Specials page.) We always have civilian sack coats and cotton trowsers, work and dress shirts, fancier vests, cravats and hats in a variety of price ranges - and we custom make frock coats in any style, fabric and size you require.
For the Ladies, we have wool cloaks available, as well as our popular camp/work dresses with aprons. We also have bonnets of felt and straw, cloth soft bonnets, crochets gloves, and a wide variety of reproduction cameos and jewelry available.
For the younger ladies, we have cotton day dresses in sizes 3 through 14 or we can custom make fancy dresses to your liking.
For the younger gentlemen, we have shirts and vests from sizes 6 through 12 and trowsers in waists 20 and up. Of course, we can make whatever you need.
We continue to stock a full line of mid-19th century military clothing and accessories for both Federal and Confederate reenactors. We’re trying very hard to maintain a full stock of shell jackets and trowers in the brown jean wool and the darker grey jean wool - but if we don’t have your size in stock, we’ll surely make it up. As always, if we don’t have it, we’ll make it to your specifications - just let us know what you desire.
Our writing sets and journals are always popular. We have 2 wooden pen sets at $10.95; 6 glass pen sets for $19.95; a glass pen/ink/inkwell set for $19.95, and the fancier sets at $45.
As always, we have many, many items for smaller gifts and stocking stuffers:
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• Wool gloves and half-fingers mitts for everyone - only $9 a pair
• “Housewives” or traveling sewing kits, fully stocked, at $14 each
• Crochet hooks and knitting needles of birch from Brittany at $6.95
• Decks of cards reproduced from originals at $7.50 a deck
• Jaw Harps and Tin Penny Whistles at $5.95 each
• Wool sox for men and boys at $8.50 a pair
• Striped cotton stockings for everyone in a variety of color combinations
- call for colors in stock
• Old style soaps at only $3.50 a bar - oatmeal, honey vanilla, pine tar, autumn
thunder and almond in stock now!
• Numerous paper doll books detailing fashions from 1770 through 1910
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| Can't figure out what to give? Trying to find a gift for the living historian who has everything? Why not pick a Gift Certificate to James Country? Just let us know the amount you need -- 816-781-9473. |
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If you are in the Liberty/Kansas City area, be sure to come by the store and check things out in person. We have several sale tables in the store at all times with an ever-changing stock of clothing, accessories, camping gear, etc. We can discuss clothing needs in detail and measure you for that custom coat, uniform or dress.
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