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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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Article about the early settlers and events before the Civil War in Westport, including the Santa Fe trade and the slavery issue.
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Date
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1965-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Reminiscences of Old Westport
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Description
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Article written in 1913 on reminiscences of the author from her childhood in Westport, her father being Luther Carter, a Methodist preacher at the Shawnee Mission, with descriptions of antebellum entertainment, a murder by Cole Younger, and the fusion of Westport and Kansas City.
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Date
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1965-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Autobiography of a Westport Pioneer
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Description
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Account of Westport, starting in 1854, by one of its early settlers, Anna E. Charles Krueger, Jr., or Anna Krueger. Includes descriptions of various disasters befalling the area, including an earthquake in the 1860s, the Battle of Westport, and the 1878 grasshopper plague, along with more domestic events of the 1800s.
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Date
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1965-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
