PlistoriesLl The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI BOARD OF EDITORS LAWRENCE 0. CHRISTENSEN SUSAN M. HARTMANN University of Missouri-Rolla Ohio State University, Columbus WILLIAM E. FOLEY ALAN R. HAVIG Central Missouri State University, Stephens College, Warrensburg Columbia JEAN TYREE HAMILTON DAVID D. MARCH Marshall Kirksville ARVARH E. STRICKLAND University of Missouri-Columbia COVER DESCRIPTION: Andrew Tau, one of Missouri's preeminent photographers, cap­ tured this winter scene in Chicago's Jackson Park sometime between 1928 and 1945. Tau donated more than 400 photographs to the State Historical Society of Missouri, and they have become one of the Society's most important collections of photography as a fine art. For more information see: "Andrew Tau: Missouri Photographer," by Susan Yeshilada in the January 1988 issue of the Missouri Historical Review. MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI JAMES W. GOODRICH EDITOR MARY K. DAINS ASSOCIATE EDITOR R. DOUGLAS HURT ASSOCIATE EDITOR LEONA S. MORRIS RESEARCH ASSISTANT Copyright © 1989 by the State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201 The Missouri Historical Review (ISSN 0026-6582) is owned by The State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 10 South Hitt, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communications, business and editorial correspondence and change of address to the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. SOCIETY HOURS: The Society is open to the public from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday, and Saturday from 9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., except legal holidays. Holiday Schedule: The Society will be closed Saturday during VOLUME LXXXIII the Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanks­ giving, Christmas and New Year's weekends. NUMBER 2 On the day of the annual meeting, October 7, 1989, the Society will be closed for research. JANUARY, 1989 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of the State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R.S. of Mo., 1969, chapter 183, as revised 1978. OFFICERS 1986-1989 JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis, President AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, First Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Second Vice President VIRGINIA YOUNG, Columbia, Third Vice President NOBLE E. CUNNINGHAM, Columbia, Fourth Vice President R. KENNETH ELLIOTT, Kansas City, Fifth Vice President ROBERT G.J. HOESTER, Kirkwood, Sixth Vice President ALBERT M. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer JAMES W. GOODRICH, Columbia, Executive Director, Secretary and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau FRANCIS M. BARNES III, Kirkwood LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1989 MRS. SAMUEL A. BURK, Kirksville DOYLE PATTERSON, Kansas City VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana STUART SYMINGTON, JR., St. Louis JEAN TYREE HAMILTON, Marshall ROBERT WOLPERS, Poplar Bluff W. ROGERS HEWITT, Shelbyville DALTON C. WRIGHT, Lebanon Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1990 H. RILEY BOCK, New Madrid GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis ROBERT S. DALE, Carthage ROBERT C. SMITH, Columbia FREDERICK W. LEHMANN IV, WALLACE B. SMITH, Independence Webster Groves ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1991 JAMES W. BROWN, Harrisonville BOB PRIDDY, Jefferson City ILUS W. DAVIS, Kansas City DALE REESMAN, Boonville JOHN K. HULSTON, Springfield ARVARH E. STRICKLAND, Columbia JAMES C. OLSON, Kansas City BLANCHE M. TOUHILL, St. Louis BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Board of Trustees consists of one Trustee from each Congressional District of the State and fourteen Trustees elected at large. In addition to the elected Trustees, the President of the Society, the Vice Presidents of the Society, all former Presidents of the Society, and the ex officio members of the Society constitute the Board of Trustees. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Six Trustees elected by the Board of Trustees together with the President of the Society constitute the Executive Committee. The Executive Director of the Society serves as an ex officio member. WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington, Chairman JEAN TYREE HAMILTON, Marshall FRANCIS M. BARNES III, Kirkwood JAMES C. OLSON, Kansas City ELMER ELLIS, Columbia ROBERT C. SMITH, Columbia JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis EDITORIAL POLICY The editors of the Missouri Historical Review welcome submission of articles and documents relating to the history of Missouri. Any aspect of Missouri history will be considered for publication in the Review. Genealogical studies, however, are not accepted because of limited appeal to general readers. Manuscripts pertaining to all fields of American history will be considered if the subject matter has significant relevance to the history of Missouri or the West. Authors should submit two double-spaced copies of their manuscripts. The footnotes, prepared according to The Chicago Manual of Style, also should be double-spaced and placed at the end of the text. Authors may submit manu­ scripts on PC/DOS, 360K floppy disk. The disk must be IBM compatible, preferably a Displaywrite 3 or 4 program. Otherwise, it must be in ASCII format. Two hard copies still are required, and the print must be letter or near-letter quality. Dot matrix submissions will not be accepted. Orig­ inality of subject, general interest of the article, sources used, interpretation and style are criteria for acceptance and publica­ tion. Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words. Articles that are accepted for publication become the property of The State Historical Society of Missouri and may not be pub­ lished elsewhere without permission. The Society does not accept responsibility for statements of fact or opinion made by the authors. Articles published in the Review are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life, Recently Published Articles, Writings on American History, The Western Historical Quarterly and The Journal of Ameri­ can History. Manuscripts submitted for the Review should be ad­ dressed to: Dr. James W. Goodrich, Editor Missouri Historical Review The State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Street Columbia, Missouri 65201 CONTENTS RICHARD B. RUSSELL AND LYNDON B. JOHNSON: THE STORY OF A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP. By Gilbert C. File 125 THE GREAT-LITTLE BATTLE OF PILOT KNOB. [PART I]. By Joseph Conan Thompson 139 THE ARCHITECTURAL CAREER OF NELLE PETERS. By George Ehrlich and Sherry Piland 161 DANIEL R. FITZPATRICK: A MISSOURI CARTOONIST. By Susan Yeshilada 177 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Society Holds Annual Meeting 187 News in Brief 196 Local Historical Societies 200 Gifts 211 Missouri History in Newspapers 216 Missouri History in Magazines 224 In Memoriam 233 BOOK REVIEWS 235 BOOK NOTES 244 Richard B. Russell Memorial Library, University of Georgia Richard B. Russell and Lyndon Baines Johnson became friends soon after Johnson's election to the House of Representatives in 1937. Johnson cultivated Russell's support because it brought prestige and power. By the end of Johnson's presidential ad­ ministration, however, their friendship had ended over matters of domestic policy and personal politics. Richard B. Russell and Lyndon B. Johnson: The Story of a Strange Friendship BY GILBERT C. FITE* One of the strangest personal and political friendships in the twentieth century was that between Richard Brevard Russell, Jr., of Georgia and Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. The claim sometimes made that opposites draw one another is surely confirmed in the Russell-Johnson relationship. They were both intelligent, ambitious and talented men, but of very different background, temperament and character. And hereby hangs an interesting political tale. First, something about Dick Russell. Born on November 2, 1897, he was a member of a prominent Georgia family and lived in Winder, a •Gilbert C. Fite, former Richard B. Russell Professor of History at the University of Georgia, presented this paper on October 22, 1988, at the annual meeting of the State Historical Society of Missouri. 125 126 Missouri Historical Review small town some forty miles northeast of Atlanta. Russell's father had served in the Georgia legislature in the 1880s and later became a state judge. His mother was a bright and talented woman who taught school before resigning in the early 1890s to begin rearing a family of thirteen children. The elder Russell was an extremely ambitious man who later ran for governor and other high offices only to be denied victory in a statewide campaign until 1922 when he was elected chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Young Dick Russell had all of the advantages of the southern elite. He attended Gordon Military Institute at Barnesville, Georgia, one of the best secondary schools in the South. Then he obtained a law degree from the University of Georgia, the state's premier institution of higher education. After graduating from law school in 1918, he served in the navy for a few months and then entered the practice of law with his father in Winder. A county-seat law practice, however, did not satisfy or challenge Dick Russell. In 1920, at age twenty-two, he ran for the Georgia House of Representatives, defeating a veteran legislator. Russell had found his niche in life—public service. He served in the Georgia General Assembly until 1931, the last four years as speaker of the house. During the 1920s, he built up a network of friends and political supporters in the state which provided a power base for his later statewide campaigns. Al­ though very few people believed that he had a chance to win, he decided to run for governor in 1930. To the surprise of most Georgians, except Russell, he won the governorship against a strong field. When he was inaugurated in June 1931, he was only thirty-three, the youngest governor in Georgia's history.