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...only one thing wrong with the Jefferson Memorial Museum in St. Louis: too few people ever stopped to see what was on display in that white-limestone building on the edge of big (1,380 acres) Forest Park. But that was before 35-year-old Amateur Historian Charles Van Ravenswaay got out of the Navy, took the job of museum director and began changing things...
Born and raised in the Missouri River town of Boonville (pop. 6,000), Charlie Van Ravenswaay had had a passion for frontier history since boyhood. If present-day youngsters didn't see things that way, he thought it was partly the fault of the museum. Jefferson had a whole wing full of frontier treasures (as well as a somewhat more popular permanent exhibit of the trophies of Charles A. Lindbergh). But there they were, locked away in glass cases or, if in open displays, with "Do Not Touch" signs all over them. Last year Van Ravenswaay got his long...