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Title: Hiking and Bicycle Trails
Description: Information about the trails for hiking and biking in the Kansas City area.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Gettin' Along on the Texas-Chisholm Trail
Description: Article describes modern travel along the Texas-Chisholm Trail, from Kingsville,Texas, to Abilene, Kansas. This trail, among others from Texas to Kansas and Missouri (such as the lesser known Western and Sedalia Trails), was a key road for transporting livestock north. Author mentions that the man after whom the Chicholm Trail is named, Jesse Chisholm, was not a cattleman, nor did the trail he blaze enter Texas.
Date: 2004-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Raining Hogs & Running Ponies: 150th Anniversary of the Pony Express
Description: History of the Pony Express that celebrates its 150 birthday April 3. The mail first came across Missouri on the train from Hannibal to St. Joseph where riders waited at Pikes Peak Livery Stables to begin the journey to the West coast. Article augmented with several sidebars.
Date: 2010-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: La Benite Trail Volunteers
Description: Text and images of volunteers creating and maintaining the La Benite Trail built along the south bank of the Missouri River. The 1.75-mile trail begins in La Benite Park in Sugar Creek, Missouri, and ends at the confluence of Mill Creek and the Missouri River to the east.
Date: 2009-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Santa Fe Trail Marker
Description: View of three stone markers, exact location not given, probably eastern Jackson County, Missouri. First marker on the left reads: "Santa Fe Trail, 1822-72, Government Reservation 1808." Middle marker reads: "Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Fort Osage Township, 1918." Marker on right reads: "Cross State Highway, Buckner 1876, Jackson County. Mo." Back of the photograph reads: "Dr. A.H. Cordier, 415 Benton Blvd. City. Sept 1.15."
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Santa Fe Trail
Description: Illustrated map of the Santa Fe Trail, including additional roads and trails throughout Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Transportation routes from 1540 through 1880 are noted, as well and landmarks, events, and inhabitants of the areas.
Date: 1946
Object Type: Map

Title: A Sketch of the Vice Royalty Exhibiting the Several Provinces and Its Approximation to the Internal Provinces of New Spain
Description: Map of territory in North America, specifically Mexico under the government of Spain, including roads, capitals of provinces, Spanish villages, Indian towns, etc.
Object Type: Map

Title: The National Old Trails Road, 6,000 Miles in Length....
Description: Map shows roads formerly of old trails that crossed the United States from coast to coast. Includes the Old Lost Road from Boston through New York to Washington; Bradlock's Road; the Cumberland Road or National Pike; Boon's Lick Road; Santa Fe Trail; Trail of the Padres; El Camino Real; the Oregon Trail; and the California Cutoff of the Forty-niners
Date: 1915-02-28
Object Type: Map

Title: Route of the Kansas City-St. Louis Rock Road
Description: Map of the Old Trails Road across Missouri. Shows which parts were macadamized and graded
Date: 1915-06-30
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of The Old Santa Fé Trail from Old Franklin, MO to Santa Fé, N M
Description: Map of the Santa Fé Trail. In upper left corner, "Compiled and issued by Mrs. John Van Brunt, Santa Fé Trail Committee, Kansas City Chapter" [of the Daughters of the American Revolution].
Date: 1909
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the Original Survey of the Santa Fe Trail Approved by President Monroe One Hundred Years Ago
Description: Enlarged photocopy of a map of the Santa Fe Trail, accompanied by a newspaper article concerning the history of the route. Includes a table of distances on the old trail from Independence to Santa Fe with the names of the principal camping places. "The distance from Independence to Santa Fe was variously estimated at from 750 to 800 miles."
Date: 1925-08-09
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the Original Survey of the Santa Fe Trail Approved by President Monroe One Hundred Years Ago
Description: Map of the Santa Fe Trail, accompanied by a newspaper article concerning the history of the route. Includes a table of distances on the old trail from Independence to Santa Fe with the names of the principal camping places. "The distance from Independence to Santa Fe was variously estimated at from 750 to 800 miles."
Date: 1925-08-09
Object Type: Map

Title: Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Description: Framed (11.5 in. x 15.5 in.) award certificate which reads: "In Recognition of Distinguished Help and Service to the Cause of Preserving Our Western Trails and the Traditions of Our American Pioneers, Kansas City Public Library, is Awarded Life Membership in the Oregon Trail Memorial Association and Its Successor American Pioneer Trails Association." The document is signed by Henry G. Hillier, Secretary, and Howard R. Driggs, President. Includes a color tinted map showing the various trails west. Lower part shows a wagon train image. Includes the organization's seal and two medallion images, one representing the Pony Express and one the Oregon Trail. Presented in 1960 according to letter attached to the back.
Date: 1960
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Oregon Trail
Description: Framed (26.5 in. x 17.5 in.) and matted giclée print "The Oregon Trail; The Highway of the Pioneers to the Pacific Northwest." The print is a reproduction from a map in the MVSC map collection by W. F. McIlwraith.
Date: 2006~
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Alfred Jacob Miller
Description: Illustrations and information on Alfred Jacob Miller, or Alfred Miller (1810-1874), a native of Baltimore and a painter and explorer of western scenes on the Overland Trail (or Oregon Trail) leaving out of Independence, Missouri, in 1837.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: The Motor Trails of Kansas
Description: The Santa Fe Trail in the state of Kansas is detailed in this map. Shows counties and other roads and trails in the state.
Date: 1912-08-12
Object Type: Map

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Pawnee Rock Monument
Description: Inside front cover of magazine features a picture of the Pawnee Rock Monument dated June 6, 1914. This Santa Fe Trail landmark is located by the town of Pawnee Rock in central Kansas. The monument shown was erected in 1912. The site is a state historic site now and the top of the monument has since been lost. Concerning the site, "travelers and traders used it as a campground and landmark, signaling as it did the halfway point in their long and often arduous journey to or from Santa Fe". It became covered with names as people would carve on the rock.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

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