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Title
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Westport, Missouri--during Heyday
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Description
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Article about the prominent citizens and businesses in Westport during its "heyday" of the 1850s and 1860s, including Alexander Majors, Albert G. Boone, Allen Ward, Finess Ewing, Ed Price, and several others.
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Date
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1966-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Founding of Westport, Mo.
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Description
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A series of articles about the founding of Westport. Each one covers a separate aspect or person involved in the town's settlement; most have illustrations. The series includes, among others, these main topics: (1) Yoacham family [June 1976, page 17](2) McCoy family [July 1976, Page 18](3) Battle of Westport [Nov. 1976, Page 14](4) early parties and social events [Dec. 1976, Page 12](5) Kelly's Westport Inn [Jan. 1977, Page 5](6) Harris House Hotel [Feb. 1977, Page 14](7) Mill Street [March 1977, Page 7](8) historian Francis Parkman [May 1977, Page 12](9) large fire of 1858 [December 1977, p. 12](10) wind-powered wagons [June 1977, Page 6](11) Spanish weddings [July-Aug. 1977, Page 8]and (12) early homes [Sept. 1977, Page 10].
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Date
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1976-06/1977-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Economies of 1867 Kansas City and Westport
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Description
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Descriptions of Kansas City and Westport in 1867, concentrating on their economies, listing numbers and types of businesses (including the Westport Border-Star newspaper), climate and natural resources, etc., with an illustration of steamship commerce. "These statistics show Kansas City to be the heaviest commercial point west of St. Louis, and prove the correctness of the statements, as to its advantageous location...."
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Date
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1867
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Westport and the Santa Fe Trade
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Description
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Article (written by a well-known Westport trader starting in 1847 born in Virginia in 1823) about the relationship of Westport, Missouri to the Santa Fe trade in the 1800s. General discussion as well as listing of specific places and people such as Daniel Yoacham ("Daniel Yocum"), A. B. H. McGee, John Harris, Antonio Chavez, William Bernard, Albert Boone, James Winchester ("of the firm of Winchester & Piper, one of the great houses of Westport"), Francis Aubrey, Charles Kearney, Joseph Chick, Cyprien Chouteau, Lucien Maxwell, Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, John Fremont, Francis Parkman, Louis Vogel, and E. F. Beale, et al.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Traders and Merchants
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Description
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Brief biographies of early businessmen in the Town of Kansas and Westport by writer Zealia Bishop, mainly early fur traders such as the Chouteaus, Ewing Clymer & Company, and others, from the 1820s to the 1840s.
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Date
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1951
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
