This book is a partial collection of research done by Jeanne Newby in her thirty-one years of writing a weekly column in the Webb City Sentinel known as "Ancestors, Legends, and Time," approximating 1,612 articles over her career. Jeanne acquired a passion for local history in those thirty-one years, not just Webb City but many of the other small towns in the local community that made up the well-known Southwest Missouri Mining District.