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Title: Laura Wiedenmann: In Memoriam
Description: Obituary of Laura Lee (Pare) Wiedenmann, longtime Westport Historical Society Member and supporter.
Date: 2020-02
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Remembering Delaware Street, Part II
Description: Description of the plat of land bought by Richard Wornall "about two miles south of Westport...from an early settler, John Calvin McCoy," and his father, Isaac, in 1843.
Date: 1963-11
Object Type: Magazine

Title: History Student Edits Civil War Letter of Circuit Riding Methodist Preacher
Description: Excerpts from an 1864 letter concerning observations of the Battle of Westport by Reverend James Griffing (1822-1882), "a pioneer Methodist preacher who rode a circuit in the eastern portion of Kansas in the 1850s."
Date: 1971
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Missouri! One Last Time
Description: Article provides a detailed account of of the 1864 attempt by forces under the command of General Sterling Price to retake Missouri for the Confederacy. It includes photographs of military leaders and battle grounds and black and white maps of Price's Missouri Expedition and the Battles of Pilot Knob, Glasgow, and Westport.
Date: 1991-06
Object Type: Magazine