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Title: Old Westport
Description: Stories and newspaper excerpts from about 1843 to 1860 concerning wind wagons built like sailboats with wheels for crossing the Great Plains from Independence or Westport, with illustration.
Date: 1977
Object Type: Book

Title: Westport, 1812-1912
Description: Description of the origins and early history of the town of Westport, Missouri as an embarkation or jumping-off point for western travels including the Santa Fe Trail especially in the 1820s-1850s, with illustrations of the Yoacham Tavern and Thomas Goforth, first mayor of Westport.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: The "Windwagon" of Westport
Description: Reprint of an article from the Kansas City Journal-Post of January 4, 1931, about a "windwagon" experiment in Westport in 1853.
Date: 1931-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Legends of the Windwagons of Westport
Description: Description of the wind-powered wagons invented "[s]everal years before the Civil War" by "a man named Thomas" in Westport, popularized in a Walt Disney cartoon in the 1960s.
Date: 1965-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Interesting Bits of History
Description: One paragraph quoted from the "Rocky Mountain News" newspaper of April 18, 1860, describing the amazing speed of wind wagons from the Missouri River across the Great Plains to Colorado.
Date: 1945-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Josiah Belden, 1841 California Overland Pioneer: His Memoir and Early Letters
Description: Bibliography in the book with references to manuscripts, newspapers, books, and magazines.
Date: 1962
Object Type: Book

Title: Wagonmasters: High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880
Description: Book about a variety of aspects of the Santa Fe trade and some of its early people, including the Kansas City and Westport areas.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Book

Title: To California in 1849
Description: Typed manuscript of the journey of John Hudgins by wagon train to California in 1849. Mention of passage from Mooresville, Missouri, through Westport, Smithville, and Barry, Missouri (in the Kansas City area) on the way to the California Trail further west.
Object Type: Book

Title: Rites for Mrs. Weber
Description: Photo and obituary for Mrs. Joseph Weber, dying at the age of 92, the wife of a leather goods shop owner and daughter of Casper Barth, an early day Westport wagon manufacturer, "who led the first wagon train to Westport and established a machine factory where he built wagons."
Date: 1956-08-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article