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Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1808-1908
Description: Chapter of the book about the prophecies about Kansas City in the 19th century, featuring those by Senator Thomas Benton in the 1850s and those by Jackson County resident William Gilpin starting in the 1840s, with a copy of his "prophetic map, 1859."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Thomas Benton's Prophecy for Missouri
Description: One paragraph about Senator Thomas Hart Benton's prophecy for the future of Missouri in the 1830s, overheard by William Mulkey, "the oldest living resident in Kansas City" in 1896. Description of Mulkey, a horse breeder and former Westport trader born in North Carolina in 1824 and coming to Kansas City in 1828 with his mother John Johnson, establishing his homestead about 1851 "on the bluff" near 12th and Troost Avenues.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Thomas Hart Benton's Prophecy for Kansas City
Description: "It was about this time [1853] that Senator Thomas Hart Benton voiced his heartening prediction of the city's future. At a time when the rival cities, Independence and Leavenworth, continued to speak derisively of the new river hamlet as Westport Landing." The senator, visiting the site of Kansas City in 1854, said: "There, gentlemen, where the rocky bluff meets and turns aside the sweeping current of this mighty river; here, where the Missouri, after pursuing her southward course for nearly 2,000 miles, turns eastward to meet the Mississippi, a large commercial and manufacturing community will congregate, and less than a generation will see a great city on these hills."
Date: 1938
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Descriptions of Kansas City by Irving and Benton
Description: Description of the visits by Washington Irving (in Independence in 1832) and Senator Thomas Hart Benton (at Kansas City in 1853) and their descriptions of the Kansas City area, the latter's being called a "prophecy."
Date: 1925
Object Type: Book

Title: Hannibal Bridge
Description: Article containing a prophecy by A. J. Normand, shoe store owner and publisher of "The Kansas City Bridge," issued on July 3, 1869, in commemoration of the Hannibal Bridge opening. This article also reprints the program of the bridge celebration.
Date: 1905-04-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Man Who Never Sleeps: In Night Vigils Sees Calamities of Years to Come
Description: Photo, illustrations, and biographical article about John Burns, a 70-year-old psychic and insomniac from Ireland living retired at "the House of David, 406 Main street, Kansas City, seeing visions of catastrophes which, he says, will occur within the near future."
Date: 1908-12-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Seers in the Heartland: Hot on the Trail of the Kansas City Prophets
Description: Photos, illustration, and biographical article about the pastors at the Kansas City Fellowship church (including Reverend Mike Bickle, Bob Jones, Paul Cain, and John Paul Jackson) and their purported gift of "prophecy" disputed by "next-door neighbor Ernest Gruen, pastor of Full Faith Church of Love, a large, charismatic congregation in Shawnee, Kansas."
Date: 1991-01-14
Object Type: Magazine Article

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