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Title
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Town of Kansas: Medley of Beginnings at Kawsmouth
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Description
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A 23 page paper read before the Kansas City Corral, The Westerners, Hotel Bellerive, December 10, 1957, dealing with the early history of Kansas City, concentrating on the period just before the Town of Kansas's incorporation in 1838 (by James McGee and other English speakers). Description of the riverfront area's first permanent European settlement by French speakers in the 1820s including Gabriel Prudhomme, buying a plat of 257 acres between Broadway, Holmes, and 5th Streets and the Missouri River and operating a ferry before being killed in 1831.
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Date
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1957
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Object Type
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Manuscript
