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Title: Walls and Foundation
Description: Interior view of foundation detail; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Post and Foundation Stone
Description: Interior view of post and foundation stone; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Ceiling and Wall Intersection
Description: Interior view of second floor ceiling and wall intersection; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Building Foundation
Description: Interior view of foundation detail; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joists
Description: Interior view of first floor joists; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Masonry Strap
Description: Interior view of masonry strap detail; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Stonework
Description: Interior view of masonry detail; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Door
Description: Interior view of second story door; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Center Beam and Post
Description: Interior view of center beam and post; from research report on the building.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Chapter of the book about Tim Goodale, a fur trapper entering the Far West from Illinois by 1839, in the 1840s-1850s encountering fellow mountain men Kit Carson, Lucien Maxwell, et al., living "at the [Louis] Vasquez farm near Westport, Missouri," in 1859, and dying some time after 1864.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Book

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Photo (of an ad for Vasquez's store) and chapter of the book about Auguste Pike Vasquez, or Pike Vasquez (1813-1869), a western trader, son of Antoine Vasquez, and "grandson of Benito Vasquez, who had come to St. Louis from Spain in 1770." Raised partly in Saint Louis and moving to the later site of Kansas City in 1926 with his father, "agent for the Kansas Indians" until 1829, then becoming a Rocky Mountain fur trader with his uncle Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in the 1830s, establishing Fort Vasquez and returning to Westport briefly in the 1860s.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Book

Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West
Description: Portrait, illustrations, and chapter of the book about John Grey, "[n]oted primarily as an Iroquois leader and explorer" as Ignace Hatchiorauquasha and "[k]nown to his British associates as John Grey," a half-Indian fur trader settling in Kansas City about 1836. Description of his career, starting west for the Oregon Territory by 1816 from French Canada and discovering parts of Idaho and Wyoming in the 1820s before retiring in 1836 to the Westport and Independence area, joining Francois Chouteau and Andrew Drips and building a house in the West Bottoms "just west of later Mulberry Street about as close to the Indian country as he could put it," then traveling with Father Pierre Jean DeSmet in 1841 and dying some time before the flood of 1844, wiping out his widow's home, forcing her to move to Fort Scott, Kansas, after 1850.
Date: 1969
Object Type: Book

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