Part of the book's chapter is on the 1903 flood in the West Bottoms including the Armourdale and Argentine districts, leading to the flood prevention project called the Kaw Valley Drainage District.
History of the natural and mad-made changes in the course of Turkey Creek in Kansas City, Kansas, since its original surveying in 1823 by Joseph C. Brown, including Rosedale, Kansas, and the West Bottoms.