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Title: Old Westport
Description: Article describing several firsts for the city of Westport, starting with the supposed first white visitor to the land in 1787, Daniel Morgan Boone. Description of early institutions and businesses from the 1830s to the 1860s, mostly related to the Santa Fe Trail trade.
Date: 1965-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport, Missouri--during Heyday
Description: 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.
Date: 1966-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Hays' [sic] of Westport Who Came West with Daniel Boone
Description: Biographical article about the family of Boone Hays and his four sons (Samuel Hays, Linville Hays, Amazon Hays, and Upton Hays), all early settlers of the Jackson County area and Western freighters at the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail. Description of Boone Hays as the son of William Hays (himself the son of Daniel Boone's daughter, Susannah Boone), born in Saint Charles, Missouri in the late 1700s and coming to Jackson County around the 1810s, building a plantation near the site of 63rd and Prospect Avenues. Description also of his sons' lives, all involved in trade with the West, including a photo and description of Amazon Hays, "named after the South American river along which his father had hunted."
Date: 1969-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Upton Hays Brigade
Description: Portrait and article about Colonel Upton Hays (1832-1864), or Upton Hayes, a Confederate officer and Westport trader born in Callaway County, Missouri, and killed in battle after having his house burned down in 1864 "at what is now 63rd and Prospect avenue."
Date: 1968-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: For Those Who Love Horse Racing
Description: Archives of local horse racing tales collected by 1870s horse racer William Mulkey and bequeathed to the author Albert Doerschuk.
Date: 1969-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

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