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Title
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The Retreat From Westport
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Description
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An 11 page photocopied handwritten paper concerning the Battle of Westport with footnotes. The paper does not appear to be complete. Accession #92-6.
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Battle of Westport Letter of Charles Norhood Mumford
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Description
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Copies of a handwritten letter dated October 29, 1864, and written by Charles Norhood Mumford, or Charles Mumford, a Union officer in the Civil War stationed at Fort Scott, Kansas. It contains information about the Battle of Westport, written the day following its occurrence. Folder also contains a newspaper clipping concerning this letter published in the Kansas City Star, November 11, 1971.
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Date
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1864-10-29
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Reminiscences by William A. Lyman
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Description
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This carbon copy transcript compilation also includes the military history of Mr. Lyman compiled from official and authentic sources by the Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Benevolent Society, written in 1905; letters written home, 1862-1863, most written from Kansas, Tennessee, and Cornith, Mississippi; and extracts from the diary of Wm. A. Lyman, 1864-66, written primarily in Pilot Knob, Missouri.
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Date
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1932
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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The Search For Adaline Harvey Bent - The Fourth and Basically Unknown Wife of William Bent
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Description
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Footnoted paper which gives basic information about William Bent and his family with particular emphasis on Adeline Harvey Bent, his fourth and last wife. She was the daughter of fur trader Alexander Harvey and his Indian wife. Adaline and Bent were married for a short while before his death and supposedly had a daughter. Paper explains her involvement with Bent's will and his property in Westport.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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The Kansas City El Road
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Description
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Paper by Calvin Manon about the history of the elevated street railway road, partly constituted of a tunnel running underground through the bluff at 8th Street. Information also about other streetcars, including 40 acquired from the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair, the city's most ornate, durable, and smooth-riding until 1941. Excerpt from page 3: "The engines carried a dummy street car body, a camouflage which was supposed to prevent horses from becoming frightened along the routes where the trains ran on streets. Presumably this was supposed to keep the horses from seeing the smoke or hearing the snorting of the engine. The tiny, eight wheeled locomotives burned coke instead of coal. This was an effort to hold down the volume of smoke and cinders, the major objection to the use of steam engines for city transportation."
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Date
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1967-10-10
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Object Type
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Manuscript
