The Reader's Corner

John Bradbury

John Bradbury was born in Heidelburg, Germany, and came to Rolla with his family in 1957. He received the B.A. in history from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1974, and did graduate work at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Since 1980, he has been a manuscript specialist with the University of Missouri's Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Rolla. He has written extensively on Phelps County's history and on the Civil War in the Ozarks. He is a member of the Old Courthouse Preservation Committee and the Phelps County Historical Society. Since 1990, he has been co-editor of the Newsletter of the Phelps County Historical Society.

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