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Title
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Oregon California Trail Places of Origin
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Description
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Chapter mentions the various "jumping off" spots for trail emigrants, especially the Oregon/California Trail. It includes areas as Independence, Westport, Westport Landing, Saint Joseph, Council Bluffs, Omaha, etc., and explains the crucial role of these areas in the trail experience. Also includes a map entitled "Missouri River Frontier" that shows from what is now the Kansas City area up to Omaha. The book has an extensive multiple page bibliography on the subject.
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Date
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1979
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Wayne City, Missouri--Its Development and Demise
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Description
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History of the ghost town of Wayne City, Missouri, also known as Wayne City Landing, the early river port for Independence. Description of its commercial river village from the 1830s to the 1870s, dying out because of several factors: railroads, bridges, competition with Westport Landing for Kansas City, the cholera epidemic, Mexican and Civil Wars, and river sandbar depositions, with map.
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Date
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1979
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Object Type
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Magazine Article