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Kansas City Had Its Beginnings in "An Unpretending Edifice of John Barleycorn"
Title
Kansas City Had Its Beginnings in "An Unpretending Edifice of John Barleycorn"
Description
Detailed history of Kansas City from 1830-1839, starting with the purchase of "Westport Landing" by Prudhomme and ending with the first town meeting of the "town of Kansas."
Date
1996
Object Type
Magazine Article
Town of Kansas: Medley of Beginnings at Kawsmouth
Title
Town of Kansas: Medley of Beginnings at Kawsmouth
Description
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.
Date
1957
Object Type
Manuscript