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Title
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History Forgot a Pioneer Guide Who Made His Home in Westport
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Description
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Portrait and biographical article reprinted from the Kansas City Times of August 10, 1935, about Thomas Fitzpatrick (ca. 1799-1854), an important guide of the early West and resident of Westport in later life. Description of his role in establishing the Oregon and California Trails through the Rocky Mountains, starting in 1822 with William Ashley and including encounters with Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, William Sublette, Albert Boone, Kit Carson, Pierre De Smet, et al., and the Kansas City area.
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Date
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1966-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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General Jo Shelby and Johnny Ringo
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Description
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Photo (of General Shelby) and biographical article about General Joseph Shelby and Johnny Ringo, soldiers "in the Missouri Raid of 1864, fought in the Battle of Westport." Shelby described as a Confederate general and Ringo described as a western outlaw (fighting Wyatt Earp and others) after the war killed in Arizona in 1882.
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Date
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1971-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Story behind "the Pioneer Mother"
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Description
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Photos and article about the origins of the Pioneer Mother statue at Penn Valley Park (since 1927), sculpted by A. Phimister Proctor and commissioned and "given to the people of Kansas City by the late Howard Vanderslice in memory of his mother [Sarah Jane Vanderslice] who made the long trek westward in 1853" from Kentucky with her husband and his father, Indian agent Major Daniel Vanderslice.
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Date
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1966-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Excitement in Life of Virginia Harris Thornton
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Description
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Biographical article about the infancy of Mrs. Virginia Harris Thornton, or Virginia Thornton (104 years old in 1966) and her mother Nellie McCoy Harris, or Nellie Harris (daughter of John Calvin McCoy) during the Civil War. Description of Nellie's smuggling of weapons to Confederate soldiers in Independence through Union lines and meeting "Quantrill, the famous guerrilla leader, and Jesse James, and Jeb Stuart, the famous cavalry leader."
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Date
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1966-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Joseph Orville Shelby Letter
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Description
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Letter (written in 1888) with editorial commentary from General Joseph Orville Shelby, or Joseph Shelby, to Major C. C. Rainwater about some of his Civil War stories as a former Confederate general in Missouri.
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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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Westport's Company of Volunteers
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Description
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Article about the fighting and movements dealing with the "25th Missouri" and Company G volunteer soldiers of Westport in the Civil War, led first by Robert T. Van Horn and then by J. W. Bissell.
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Date
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1974-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
