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Title
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The Great 1951 Flood: Tales of the 1951 Flood
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Description
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Booklet of personal reminiscences (with a few cartoon illustrations) about the 1951 flood in Kansas City, Kansas, especially in the West Bottoms (at the mouth of the Kansas River or Kaw River).
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Date
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1995
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Flood Disaster: Kansas City--1951
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Description
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Photo of Riverside grocery and liquor stores half-submerged under flood water at "stage 32.4 feet."
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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High & Rising: The 1951 Kansas City Flood
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Description
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Book about the 1951 flood in Kansas City with numerous photos and descriptions of its causes (heavy rains in Kansas) and results (millions of dollars of damage leaving mud and wreckage), etc.
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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High & Rising
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Description
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Book is filled with photographs, personal reminiscences, and information concerning the 1951 flood. It includes a section called "A Long History of Flooding" which tells of other floods in the area (pp. 132-133).
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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History of Jackson County, Missouri
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Description
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Reminiscences of McCoy regarding the floods of 1826 and 1844, including the washing away of the "old log cabins built by the Frenchmen in 1826 . ..[which were] about all there was of Kansas City at that time."
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri
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Description
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History of Harlem, Missouri, "in the extreme southwestern part of the [Gallatin] township, on the north bank of the Missouri, immediately across the river from Kansas City," in North Kansas City, Clay County. A description of its origin with the railroads and regular flooding until after the flood of 1881 is provided.
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Date
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1885
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Object Type
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Book
