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Tall Tales: History of Butler County
Mike Shane is a veteran, Poplar Bluff resident and board member for the Poplar Bluff Museum.
Archives
- Voices of these 'Singing Mules' were heard around the world (11/15/24)
- Poplar Bluff's women in railroad (11/8/24)
- Battleship Row: Maritime marvels in Poplar Bluff (11/1/24)
- David adopts a museum (10/25/24)
- Walking with Kati (9/12/24)
- Poplar Bluff’s own Tom, Dick and Harry — Minetree (9/6/24)
- Poplar Bluff’s war correspondent (8/23/24)
- Centenarians are written in history (8/17/24)
- The incredible Mr. Linc (8/10/24)
- Love and honor: The Kennedy saga (8/3/24)
- The first entrepreneur (7/27/24)
- ‘Roll in the dirt’ cops (7/20/24)
- The Burned Block (7/13/24)
- The railroad lawmen (7/6/24)
- A higher calling (7/1/24)
- Riding the circuit of our first courts (4/19/24)
- Where was Poplar Bluff's first jail? (2/23/24)
- Scooby-Doo, where are you? Poplar Bluff. (2/9/24)
- The original Mule led PBHS to victory (2/2/24)
- The Hole in One Gang (1/26/24)
- Mules football: The undefeated years (1/12/24)
- The Interceptor's career began here (12/22/23)
- The not-so-little Mule (12/16/23)
- Meeting someday at Fiddler’s Green (12/9/23)
- Sailing the arctic patrol (12/2/23)
- The man behind Githens Hall (11/25/23)
- Poplar Bluff on the Billboard 100 (11/18/23)
- Terry’s Flying Circus (11/11/23)
- Our county’s first to fight (11/4/23)
- Doc brings home the bass (10/28/23)
- Meet America’s women warriors (10/21/23)
- Honoring Bill Hicks of the USS Wasp (10/14/23)
- The full bird colonel (10/7/23)
- The plumbers who built Poplar Bluff (9/30/23)
- The American knife (9/23/23)
- The legacy of the Aden clay mine (9/16/23)
- The last battle of WWII (9/1/23)
- Pioneer relics are preserved for today (8/26/23)
- Saving the Grand Staircase: a relic of Poplar Bluff’s rail age (8/19/23)
- The perils of ‘flying the Hump’ (8/12/23)
- Guy and Eve’s legacy of diamonds (8/5/23)
- Miss Missouri makes a global difference (7/29/23)
- A one-of-a-kind Teacher of the Year (7/22/23)
- The army artist (7/15/23)
- The Silver Beavers (7/1/23)
- What’s in a name? (6/24/23)
- Generations of ‘Tall Tales’ (6/17/23)
- Ghost towns of Butler County (6/10/23)
- The mystery of Mr. Brown (6/3/23)
- PB pilot battles friendly fire (5/27/23)
- Murder or self-defense? (5/20/23)
- When Poplar Bluff became a ‘Little Chicago’ (5/13/23)
- Faith of our Fathers (5/6/23)
- The start of a Spree (4/29/23)
- The legacy of a generous man (4/22/23)
- Poplar Bluff’s own ‘Big John’ (4/15/23)
- Hometown helicopter to the rescue in Semo (4/8/23)
- An Olympic torch resides in local history museum (4/1/23)
- Ted Schalk: kamikaze survivor (3/25/23)
- A Letter from the King (3/18/23)
- The good doctor and arm of the law (3/11/23)
- The silk dress (3/4/23)
- The city’s comeback cop (2/25/23)
- Men of Bronze (2/18/23)
- Area deploys in War on Terror (2/11/23)
- Gene’s three sons (2/4/23)
- A tale of blind justice (1/28/23)
- The birth of TRC’s mascot: Rocky Raider (1/21/23)
- Telephone Pioneers continue to serve area community (1/14/23)
- The Car Gallery (1/7/23)
- Scout hike teaches Ten Commandments (12/31/22)
- Deputy dogs are honored at museum (12/24/22)
- Bowling Hall of Fame (12/17/22)
- Billy Piper, Poplar Bluff’s All-American (12/10/22)
- Rodgers Theatre was most modern in region (12/3/22)
- The flight of the Canadian ‘Suicide Plane’ (11/19/22)
- ‘In Flanders Fields’ (11/12/22)
- The story of the PB Post Office (11/5/22)
- Home, sweet mail order home (10/29/22)
- The warrior clan of Poplar Bluff and beyond (10/22/22)
- The Hall of Heroes is a special place (10/15/22)
- Gene Bess: the winningest coach (10/8/22)
- Conservation Room brings outdoors in (10/1/22)
- Heroes of ‘Great War’ remembered at Legion (9/24/22)
- Letters to my German Soldier (9/17/22)
- Telling the story of Doctor Gus (9/10/22)
- PB patriot bridges gap between wars (9/3/22)
- ‘That damn Rebel’ (8/27/22)
- Hold the line atop Old Baldy (8/20/22)
- Looking back on a century of scouting (8/13/22)1
- Rattler’s Grocery Store: the center of the universe (8/5/22)
- The Poplar Bluff Commander (7/29/22)
- Davis joins the Globetrotters (7/23/22)
- The story of Butler County’s first highway (7/16/22)
- The fabulous Call of the Wild (7/9/22)
- Museum grew from Sports Hall of Fame (7/2/22)
- The story of the trains that built Butler County (6/25/22)
- Poplar Bluff’s leading lady (6/18/22)
- The coffin caper saves local property records (6/11/22)
- How a petition brought the President to Poplar Bluff (6/4/22)
- How the Honor Tour began here (5/28/22)
- Remembering a 21st century war hero (5/21/22)
- The sharecropper strike of 1939 (5/14/22)
- John Stanard and ‘trombone journalism’ (5/7/22)
- About the legacy of Mr. Poplar Bluff, Louie Snider (4/30/22)
- Wheatley School still educates today (4/23/22)
- A Vietnam vet’s classified mission (4/16/22)
- It was ‘almost paradise’ in 1985 (4/9/22)
- The story of a self-made man (4/2/22)
- Telling the tale of the Sea Tiger (3/26/22)
- Poplar Bluff’s own Designing Woman (3/19/22)
- Fallen in the line of duty: Sgt. David May (3/12/22)
- James Dalton, Poplar Bluff’s own captain of industry (3/5/22)
- Famous Lee Lane’s last full measure (2/26/22)
- The 1927 tornado defined Poplar Bluff (2/19/22)
- Robert Mills, man of destiny (1/29/22)
- The fighting postmen (1/22/22)
- The Poplar Bluff Saint (1/15/22)
- A museum for Margaret (1/8/22)
- A Museum for Margaret (1/7/22)
- When angels cry in the ER (12/30/21)
- PB officer helps pioneer crime scene investigation (12/24/21)
- How Poplar Bluff got its brick streets (12/18/21)
- What’s the museum’s history? (12/4/21)1
- Moss decade began here (11/27/21)
- God’s own lunatic (11/19/21)
- Doctor Mac, a founder of Poplar Bluff health care (11/13/21)
- Timber town and how Barron Road came to be in PB (11/5/21)
- Archie the Mongoose (10/30/21)
- Sam Giambelluca, the father of PB sports (10/23/21)
- Sergeant Ray’s ‘Always Faithful’ combat boots (10/16/21)
- The Water Tower might be gone, but it’s not forgotten (10/9/21)
- Poplar Bluff’s spaceman flies high (10/2/21)
- Coming to America (9/25/21)
- What’s in a name? General W.O. Butler (9/18/21)
- End of watch: Poplar Bluff’s first fallen peace officer (9/11/21)
- A workforce that helped build Poplar Bluff: Hogg Markets (9/4/21)1
- Butler County answers the call (8/28/21)
- A trading post on the Poplar bluff (8/21/21)
- The Confederate skull gets burial (8/14/21)
- The Doctor was a Doughboy (8/7/21)
- Poplar Bluff’s day at the Olympics in 1968 (7/31/21)
- PB performer has ties to Elvis, Dolly Parton (7/24/21)
- Local hero prevents runaway train collision in fall of 1966 (7/17/21)
- When Poplar Bluff had its own Navy (7/10/21)
- Hacksaw Ridge hero saves life of Broseley man at Battle of Okinawa (7/3/21)
- Hero grandma helps end killer’s spree (6/26/21)
- Tall Tales: Scruffy Town (6/18/21)
- My brother’s keeper (6/12/21)
- Jesse James robs the Poplar Bluff train (6/5/21)1
- Curry was ‘lady of three wars’ in Poplar Bluff (6/3/21)
- The Medal of Honor: Billie Kanell (5/27/21)
- Battle of Poplar Bluff — Union soldiers fire cannonball on card players (5/14/21)