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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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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