Place names in six of the west central counties of Missouri

Counties: Vernon, Bates, Cass, St. Clair, Henry, and Johnson||Statement of the problem: This thesis is the record of careful research into the origin of the place-names of western counties of Missouri. Six counties, Vernon, Bates, Cass, St. Clair, Henry, and Johnson have been studied, and the origin of place-names of counties, townships, post offices, rivers. branches, creeks, ridges, prairies, mounds, hills, valleys, gaps, churches, and mills have been recorded in so far as it is possible.