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Title
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Action Before Westport, 1864
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Description
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Paintings of battlefields and photos of generals and strategic houses.
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Date
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1964
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Retreat From Westport
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Description
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An 11 page photocopied handwritten paper concerning the Battle of Westport with footnotes. The paper does not appear to be complete. Accession #92-6.
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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The Westport Police Guard in the Civil War
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1971-09
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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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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
