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Title
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High Waters in Kansas
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Description
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Extracts from the diary of Reverend Jotham Meeker (1804-1855), a physician, missionary to the Ottawa Indians starting in 1837, and introducer of the printing press to Kansas. Description of the 1844 flooding of his house on the Marais des Cygnes River near present-day Ottawa, Kansas and taking refuge at the Shawnee Baptist Mission in Johnson County.
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Date
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1904
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Floods in the Missouri River
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Description
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Article about the history of floods on the lower Missouri River (written by a steamboat pilot on the river) and its tributaries, with descriptions of the effects on the Kansas City area during several specific floods such as the 1724 flood (at Sainte Genevieve), the 1785 flood (at Saint Louis), the 1826 flood, the 1844 flood, the 1903 flood, and the 1908 flood.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
