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Title: Travels in Search of the Elephant: The Wanderings of Alfred S. Waugh, Artist, in Louisiana, Missouri, and Santa Fe, in 1845-1846
Description: Excerpt from a book about the travels in search of work in the "Fine arts," including stops in "the landing at Kansas" and Westport in 1845.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Book

Title: The Old Santa Fe Trail from the Missouri River
Description: One paragraph about the first postmaster of Westport, Johnston Lykins, before the incorporation of Westport, listing the post office near it as "Shawnee."
Date: 1951
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Traders and Merchants
Description: Brief biographies of early businessmen in the Town of Kansas and Westport by writer Zealia Bishop, mainly early fur traders such as the Chouteaus, Ewing Clymer & Company, and others, from the 1820s to the 1840s.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Magazine Article