The Town Of El Dorado Springs
Picking research projects, sometimes for me, is an agonizing
problem that eventually turns into an enlightening experience; what was to
be my American Humanities research project was just such an experience. I
had preliminarily thought I'd look into cultural myths. While researching
myths, I ran across El Dorado Springs, MO., under the category of
geographical myths, in the library computer. I thought how interesting
while also wondering why. The book listed had been published in 1887, with
a question mark behind it, and was housed in the rare book collection of
the main library. Off I went to the main library to see what the old book
had to say. While looking through the small book, ...
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had medicinal qualitites, but,
with characteristic reticence and secretiveness, they did not reveal this
fact to the white man. They held the secret in their hearts as they gave
ground and moved westward from the surging horde of white immigrants . . .
" (1). To my mind, this sounded like a fallacy; how did they know the
Indians knew if they never told anyone? Could I find out if the Indians
considered the water medicinal? Could I prove this statement false?
Farther on in the book, I came to the section titled "For Whites Only."
"From the town's founding[,] no negros have ever lived here." This in
itself, to me, was phenomenal, but the last sentence was what made me want
to search farther. "El Dorado still has no negro residents, but under
today's Supreme Court rulings on civil rights, we have lost face and mus t
bow to the age of fading color lines (Kemp 30). Did the town, after 1962,
the published date of the book, ever allow negros to become residents of
the town? This ...
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book alluded to? Would I find
other instances of discrimination? Why did I feel drawn to this area?
Questions tumbled around in my head.
I felt the first step in my search should be to try to find out
more about the town. I had already exhausted the library's information and
searching the Internet turned up no information. It was time to contact
the only person's name I had that knew about the area, Susanna Swager, the
teacher who worked at the Blue Springs campus and lived in El Dorado
Springs.
I called her and introduced myself.
"Ms. Swager, my name is Pamela Yeager, a student at Penn Valley
Community College; my English teacher gave me your name. I'm doing an
English ...
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