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Title
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Old Westport
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Description
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Stories and newspaper excerpts from about 1843 to 1860 concerning wind wagons built like sailboats with wheels for crossing the Great Plains from Independence or Westport, with illustration.
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Date
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1977
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The "Windwagon" of Westport
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Description
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Reprint of an article from the Kansas City Journal-Post of January 4, 1931, about a "windwagon" experiment in Westport in 1853.
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Date
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1931-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Interesting Bits of History
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Description
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One paragraph quoted from the "Rocky Mountain News" newspaper of April 18, 1860, describing the amazing speed of wind wagons from the Missouri River across the Great Plains to Colorado.
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Date
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1945-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West With Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition
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Description
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho accompanied John Fremont on his fifth western expedition. He went in order to document the trip through the newly emerging medium of photography. Expedition members came up the Missouri River and arrived in Westport in September 1853. Description of their time there and of the start of the journey. Also includes a description of both the first and newer Bent's Fort as visited in 1853.
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Date
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1857
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Oregon California Trail Places of Origin
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Description
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Chapter mentions the various "jumping off" spots for trail emigrants, especially the Oregon/California Trail. It includes areas as Independence, Westport, Westport Landing, Saint Joseph, Council Bluffs, Omaha, etc., and explains the crucial role of these areas in the trail experience. Also includes a map entitled "Missouri River Frontier" that shows from what is now the Kansas City area up to Omaha. The book has an extensive multiple page bibliography on the subject.
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Date
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1979
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Object Type
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Book Section
