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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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Title
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Robert C. Corbett
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Robert Corbett, past president of the Westport Historical Society, retiring in 1987 as chairman of United Missouri Bank.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Our President's Biography
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Description
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Biographical article about Joe Montanari, "the 1998 elected president of the Westport Historical Society" and "the president of Montanari Fine Art Jewelers" established on Westport Road about 1973 and moved in the late 1990s to 114 West 47th Street on the Plaza.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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 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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Object Type
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Book
