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Title
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Liberty Arsenal
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1922
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Missouri Civil War References
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2005
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Fort Osage
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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William Abernathy
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1905-03-23
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Captain Nathan Boone's Journal
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1917
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Thomas Fitzpatrick, Guide
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Description
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Descriptions of the participation of Thomas Fitzpatrick as a guide for the military expedition in 1845 through the Rocky Mountains and along the Santa Fe Trail back to Saint Louis, leaving from Bent's Fort in Wyoming, with illustrations and descriptions of Fitzpatrick's definitions of various Indian tribes.
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Date
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1970
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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John Thornton
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1878
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Hawthorne Hall
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Description
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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."
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Missouri State Guard
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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