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Title
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The Unique Art of Allan Winkler
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Description
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Kansas City artist Allan Winkler creates intricate paper cuts and metal cuts. Winkler also renovated three old houses in Kansas City's West Side neighborhood and lives in one of them.
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Drunk Driving or Dry Run? Cowboys and Alcohol on the Cattle Trail
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Description
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Alcohol was abundant in the trail towns of the 19th century. Most of the cattle drives came up from Texas, and the state had a reputation for hearty drinking and violence. But did the cowboys drink to excess while on the drive? The author pursues this question, quoting from many different contemporary sources. His conclusion is that "cowboys constituted a masculine work culture but do not appear to have created an intemperate occupational drinking culture." The cattle owners, drive bosses, and the nature of the work seem to promote this conclusion.
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, 1891-1961, Part I
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Description
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Part one of a series exploring the early history of the Kansas City, Kansas, public school system. The article describes early missionary work and mission schools in Wyandotte County. The earliest schools served predominantly the Delaware and Wyandot Indians in present-day Wyandotte County. The first schoolhouse was established in July 1844 by a lawyer, John M. Armstrong, near what is now Fourth Street and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Laura Cansler Remembers Loman
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Description
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Loman Cansler's wife recalls and writes about Loman's love of collecting folk songs, especially in Missouri. Loman was a counselor at North Kansas City High School for many years and the Canslers and their three children lived in the north metro area. Loman was born in 1924 near Long Lane, Missouri, one of seven children. His interest in folk song collecting began while he was in the University of Missouri-Columbia library and he came across books by Belden and Vance Randolph. Collecting songs became a life-long ambition. The collection he gathered was donated to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. He learned over 1,000 songs in his lifetime, dying at age 68. After retirement, Loman worked part-time at the Kansas City Public Library in the Missouri Valley Room.
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Fur Trade
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Description
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A short, concise history is given of the fur trade and the fur trappers themselves starting with the French and ending with the decline of beaver pelts for use in the hat trade. Includes Lewis and Clark, William Ashley, the Chouteaus, etc. Various aspects of the fur trapper's life are explored. The trapper is described as a white Indian who "worked and lived intimately with real Indians. He traded with them and picked their brains; he fought with and against them and appreciated their courage. He recognized their cruelty and he often shared in it . . . the mountain man knew Indians too well to generalize about them. Like any other group of people, he realized the native people were a mixed lot. Indeed, a life in the fur trade was all about mixing."
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Book Section
