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Title
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Memories of Old Westport
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Description
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Description of the Harris House Hotel and Yoacham Tavern in pioneer Westport as firsts of their kind there.
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Date
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1924-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Westport's No. 1 Romance
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Description
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Illustrations and article about Daniel Yoacham's mid-19th century "log tavern at Mill Street and Main Street in the village of Westport," an "eastern terminus of the great Santa Fe Trail" and the site of the courtship of Mamie Bernard and Don Epifanio Aguirre, a Mexican trader.
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Date
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1945-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Cowtown Chronicles: Murder Most Foul on the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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Illustration and story about "the plot to rob wealthy trader Antonio Chavez" hatched at Yoacham Tavern in 1843 Westport, describing the futile efforts of the tavern's owner, Daniel Yoacham (dying in 1846), to prevent Don Antonio Jose Chavez's murder, vindicated by the capture of the murderers and hanging of their leaders, David McDaniel and John McDaniel, in Saint Louis in 1844.
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Date
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2000-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
