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Title: Cowtown Chronicles: Murder Most Foul on the Santa Fe Trail
Description: 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.
Date: 2000-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Daniel Yoacham's Tree
Description: Photo and article about the 300-plus-year-old tree on the late Daniel Yoacham's property in Westport at Central and Ward Parkways, cut down in 1957. Originally on the property of Yoacham from 1833 until sold to Alexander Doniphan in 1838, used as a shady resting spot for western travelers passing on the Santa Fe Trail until later sold to John Reid in 1872 and later the J. C. Nichols Company.
Date: 1969-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Daniel Yoacham, Pioneer Innkeeper of Westport
Description: Map (of John Campbell's "Town Plat of Westport before McCoy") and biographical article about Daniel Yoacham (dying in Santa Fe in 1846), first elected justice of the peace and innkeeper of the Yoacham Tavern in Westport "built as early as 1824" before the town's founding. Description of several of the early settlers of the Jackson County area in the late 1810s and early 1820s including Daniel Boone, Jesse Yoacham, Richard Berry, and Major John Campbell, et al.
Date: 1965-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Westport's No. 1 Romance
Description: 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.
Date: 1945-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the Harris House Hotel and Yoacham Tavern in pioneer Westport as firsts of their kind there.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Daniel Yoacham
Description: Information on Daniel Yoacham (dying in 1846), an early settler and tavern keeper of Westport, Missouri in the 1830s-1840s, and owner of a very old Santa Fe Trail shade tree (ca. 1644-1957) between Central and Wyandotte Streets on Ward Parkway.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Daniel Yoacham
Description: All the items in the folder are poor quality photocopies. They include reminiscences by Sallie H. Klaber, death certificate of John F. McCormack, deed recordings, and other sources of information on people who were descendants of Daniel Yoacham of Westport. The copies were sent to Adrienne Christopher, a descendant of Daniel Yoacham also. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1842/1973
Object Type: Archival Material

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