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Title: The Westport Police Guard in the Civil War
Description: Article about the Westport Police Guard, an organization of citizens to protect their homes during guerrilla raids as a result of being evicted from their homes, according to Order Number 11.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Details about experiences in "Old West" Kansas City, starting in 1851, mentioning the name of Westport Landing as the better known name of Kansas City at the time. Author Mattie Lykins the widow first of Dr. Johnston Lykins and then of artist George Caleb Bingham. Page 15: "At that time [1851-1852] Kansas City could hardly be called even a village. It was better known as Westport Landing."
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Letter from Reverend James S. Griffing
Description: Account from October 23, 1864, showing possibility of various perspectives of the Battle of Westport.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Papers of French Settlers Record Kansas City's Business Beginnings
Description: Description of the role of Francois Chouteau, "[b]est known of the French fur traders to settle here [in Kansas City]," in the early settlement and growth of Kansas City, starting in 1821, with the fur trade, also describing a deed of land sold to him by Andrew Roi in 1836. Descriptions also of Joseph Guinotte, an early engineer and farmer settling in Kansas City, buying land from the Chouteaus along the Missouri River east of Troost Avenue, by the 1850s, with much of the article's material deriving from his family papers.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Papers of French Settlers Record Kansas City's Business Beginnings
Description: Reprint from the Kansas City Star about the ferry service set up in 1837 by Peter Roi (a French settler arriving in 1826) built with its own road, the same path used roughly for the later Grand Avenue and Main Street. Description of their (the Roi family's) ferry service sold to James McGee and later to Isaac McCoy and John McCoy.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Establishment of the first Protestant church in Kansas City in 1852, mainly used by the Methodists.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Colorful story about the organization of a church Sunday School in 1854 and its troubles with illiterate "rough looking boys."
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Mention of the creek in the description of Grand Avenue and Main Street in 1852.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Struggles related to setting up Kansas City's "first" public fair. Church funds raised greatly for a population of only 400 in the city.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Recollection about an encounter with surprisingly friendly Indians and their disease-inducing pork.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Interesting Letter from Santa Fe
Description: Reprinted letter from the Missouri Intelligencer in Franklin, Missouri, about an 1825 trip to sell and trade goods on the Santa Fe Trail, describing little business opportunity at the time, especially with the difficulty and danger of the journey.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Letter from Reverend James S. Griffing
Description: Edited letter by Reverend James Griffing (1822-1882) written during the Battle of Westport in 1864, with commentary. Biographical description of Griffing, a native of New York and "pioneer Methodist preacher who rode a circuit in the eastern portion of Kansas in the 1850s," taking part in the Union side of the battle, with illustration.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

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