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Title: Military Country Club Beach
Description: Photo of the beach at the Military Country Club, south of Knobtown, Jackson County, Missouri.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Kansas City Military Airports
Description: One page of the history of military airports in Kansas City and vicinity, starting with Richards Field in 1922 and continuing with the Sherman Army Airfield at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1923; Fairfax Airport in 1929; Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in 1941 (becoming Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport in 1994); the Olathe Naval Air Station in 1942; and Whiteman Air Force Base in 1942 in Knob Noster, Missouri (starting as the Glider Base in Sedalia, Missouri).
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Liberty Arsenal
Description: Short reference to the Liberty Arsenal including a picture of the facility stating that the arsenal was built by David M. Bevins who came to Clay County in 1821. The arsenal was built in the early 1830s and maintained by the federal government until the early 1880s. "The arsenal was built on the bluff just above Baxter's or Liberty Landing, about three miles south of Liberty. Here shining brass cannon pointed their muzzles out over the broad expanse of the Missouri River and glittering bayonets were carried over the parade grounds by blue-clad soldiers."
Date: 1922
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Fort Leavenworth
Description: History of Fort Leavenworth, also known as Cantonment Leavenworth, established in 1828 near the site of present Leavenworth, Kansas, and "one of the nation's oldest active Army posts west of the Mississippi River," although "never attacked" and becoming a military training camp starting in World War I.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Camp Croghan
Description: Description of Camp Croghan, the "first military post in Kansas," also called Cantonment Martin, "established in 1818 when Kansas was an unknown portion of the Louisiana Territory" and "winter quarters for Major Stephen H. Long's historic scientific expedition on 1819-20 into the Rocky Mountains" "located on Cow Island (known to the French as Isle de Vache) in the Missouri River within the confines of present Atchison County, about 10 miles north of where Fort Leavenworth would later be established."
Date: 1987
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Missouri Civil War References
Description: This book contains several references to Missouri and the Civil War. Includes chapters entitled: "Home Guards and Home Traitors: Loyalty and Prostitution in Civil War St. Louis" and " 'A Rebel Though She Be': Gender and Missouri's War of the Households" as well as the term "guerrilla warfare in Missouri" in the index.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Fort Osage
Description: Photo and history of Fort Osage, "the first United States government outpost in Louisiana Territory," selected for its site on the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804 and established in 1808, supervised by William Clark, located near Sibley, Missouri, and restored in 1948.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Book Section

Title: William Abernathy
Description: Photo and biography of William Martin Abernathy (1860-1908), a military leader involved in the Spanish-American War and with the Abernathy Furniture Company in Kansas City.
Date: 1905-03-23
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Captain Nathan Boone's Journal
Description: Reprints of the journal of Captain Nathan Boone from his military mounted rangers' expedition over the Western prairies in the 1830s through the 1850s, telling of encounters with various Indian tribes and other situations.
Date: 1917
Object Type: Book Section

Title: John Thornton
Description: Biographical sketch of Colonel John Thornton (1786-1847), a Missouri state representative and military officer (involved with the establishment of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1829) of Liberty, Missouri. Native of Pennsylvania moving to Old Franklin, Missouri in 1817 and moving "to what is now Clay county, in April, 1820" as a farmer and "judge of the county court of Ray county" and then "judge of the county court of Clay county" in 1822.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Hawthorne Hall
Description: Description and history of the Uriah Spray Epperson House, originally known as Hawthorne Hall, in Kansas City. Construction began in 1919. After the deaths of U.S. Epperson (1927) and Elizabeth Epperson (1939), the property was converted into a club for military transport pilots. Later, in 1943, Hawthorne Hall was deeded to the University of Kansas City for a men's dormitory. "Since 1988, it has housed the architecture and environmental design studies program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City."
Date: 2008
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Missouri State Guard
Description: A section of this book contains information on the Missouri State Guard active during the Civil War. It includes information on the volunteer militia, volunteers and guerrillas, military suppliers, insignia, and arms and equipage. Cover of the book states, "this book examines the variety of uniforms worn in the first half of the war by militia and volunteers from the divided border states of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland..." Includes three pages of color illustrations of uniforms worn by the Missouri Volunteer Militia, the Missouri State Guard, and Missouri guerrillas.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Book Section

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