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Title
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
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Description
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Entry about Westport Landing, Missouri, a town "founded in the early 1830s on the site of present-day Kansas City, Missouri, by Francois Chouteau as a trading post for the American Fur Company." Joined with the town of Westport, Missouri founded two miles to the south in 1833 by John McCoy as an "[i]mportant center on the Missouri River for transshipment of goods along the Santa Fe and Chihuahua Trail."
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Jim Bridger
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Photo and entry about James Bridger, or Jim Bridger (1804-1881), "[m]ountain man, fur trader, and guide" of Westport and a native of Virginia.
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Date
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1905-06-20
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Object Type
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Book
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
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Description
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Entry about Louis Vasquez (1798-1868), "[f]ur trapper and trader" of the West starting in the 1820s, native of Saint Louis, and retired resident of Westport, Missouri.
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Date
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1998
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Book
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Wiliam Bent
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Description
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Photo (of William Bent) and entry about the Bent brothers and their fur trading operations partially under Bent, St. Vrain & Company, the "[l]argest United States business firm in the Southwest." Descriptions of William Bent (1809-1869), a fur trapper and trader born in Saint Louis and operating in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains before retiring to Westport, Missouri, "where the famed mountain men James Bridger and Louis Vasquez were his neighbors." Also description of Charles Bent (1799-1847), the oldest of the brothers born in Virginia and forming a partnership with Ceran Saint Vrain (or Ceran St. Vrain) in 1830. Younger brothers George Bent (1814-1847) and Robert Bent (1816-1841) also described.
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Date
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1905-06-20
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Object Type
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Book
