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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: Weston's Guide to the Kansas Pacific Railway
Description: Origins of the Town of Kansas and Westport in the 1830s and 1840s, explaining their fluctuating rates of growth and the resulting early name of Kansas City being "Westport Landing," including the prophecy by Senator Thomas Hart Benton on the future of the city.
Date: 1872
Object Type: Book

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