![]() ![]() ![]() In order to tell the story of Marmaduke’s life, Cullimore had to assemble what he could based on a scant collection of letters, news items, and legal documents. In the case of Meredith Miles Marmaduke, who was born in 1791 and died in 1864 after having served as Missouri’s twenty-fifth governor, among other achievements, there was no such digital archive, nor was there a journal collection left behind, at least not one that spanned the entirety of the subject’s life. Of course biographers of contemporary subjects would more than likely have access to a treasure trove of social media posts to help fill in the blanks in our life stories. Cullimore took on in To Make a Fortune in Missouri, his new biography of Meredith Miles Marmaduke, which Missouri Life had a small hand in creating (more on that in a moment). What resources would they consult to construct a narrative of your life? Did you leave behind a diary? Is there someone significant in your life who would have a large collection of letters from you? This was the challenge Lee M. ![]() Imagine someone is writing your biography more than one hundred years after you’ve died. Cullimore, 312 pages, nonfiction, Friends of Arrow Rock, hardcover, $24.99 This article was originally published in our July/August 2021 issue. ![]()
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