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Title
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Quantrill and the Border Wars
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Description
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Portrait of Upton Hays, or Upton Hayes, a prominent citizen of Westport during the Civil War.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Documents: A Journal of the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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First of a two-part series of articles excerpting the journal of Santa Fe Trail experiences in the 1800s by Philip St. George Cooke. Information on many of the trail's freighters involved with Westport such as the Chouteau family, Josiah Gregg, Charles Bent and his brother William Bent, and various military officers, et al.
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Date
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1925-06-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Personal Recollections of Life on the Plains from 1860 to 1868
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Description
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Autobiographical article by Charles Raber, a western trader born in Switzerland in 1841 and emigrating to Westport, Missouri in 1855, becoming engaged in the Santa Fe trade. Description or mention of several people and places on journeys across the Great Plains on mercantile trips including Judd Phillips, Martin Keck, Albert Boone, Epifanio Aguirre, John Booth, Andy Wright, and Tom Kincaide, et al.
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Bent's Old Fort and Its Builders
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Description
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Photos and article about Bent's Fort in southeastern Colorado as a stop near the Santa Fe Trail and its builders (mainly members of the Bent family of Missouri) and other traders there such as mountain man Kit Carson. Many details about the history of the fort as an early trading post (established in 1826, built in 1828-1832, and blown up by Bent in 1852 before the construction of a second fort in 1853 nearby) by fur trading partners William Bent (pictured) of Westport, his brothers Charles Bent, George Bent, and Robert Bent (all sons of Silas Bent of Saint Louis), and Ceran Saint Vrain, or Ceran St. Vrain (pictured). Also on pages 54-55 a description of "a saloon and dance hall called the Last Chance" about 2 miles south of Westport for Santa Fe Trail freighters in the mid-1800s.
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Date
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1922
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
