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Trading Posts of the Central Plains
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Compiled list of the locations, ownership. and periods of occupation of trading posts of the Central Plains during the era of the fur trade. The list is presented in a mix of chronological and geographical order. The list is sorted into the following categories: early posts, Missouri River posts, and inland posts. Maps displaying the locations of the posts are provided.
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2007
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Magazine Article
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Kansas City Public Library Central Parking Garage
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Book includes a two-page color photograph lof the parking garage at 10th and Baltimore in downtown Kansas City, associated with the Kansas City Public Library. The shot was taken along 10th Street and shows the fabricated book spines which decorate the south side of the garage.
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2007
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Book Section
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Chamber of Commerce Building
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Article describes a deadly fire that destroyed the Chamber of Commerce building at Hallock Street and Central Avenue (Kansas City, KS) on October 25, 1906. The fire took the lives of 15 tenants and caused over $100,000 in damage. It is reported to be the "deadliest fire in Wyandotte County's history."
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2007
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Magazine Article
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Kansas City Official Map and Discovery Guide
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Map of the central corridor of Kansas City, Missouri, showing from the Missouri River south to 54th Street, and from State Line Road east to Euclid Avenue. Attractions, churches, shopping, museums, theaters, and sporting venues are marked as are the MAX bus route and stops. Profiles of neighborhoods and districts are included, as are points of interest and a 2007 events calendar. Reverse side of the map depicts the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, stretching from Platte and Clay counties in Missouri south to Olathe, Kansas and Grandview, Missouri; and from Fort Leavenworth and Lenexa, Kansas west to Kearney and Lee's Summit, Missouri.
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2007
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Object Type
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Map
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Cinema and the Kansas/Plains Past
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Article is a survey of recent and past films that detail Kansas and Great Plains history in some way. "This year's selection of films vary in subject matter from those about territorial Kansas and Westerns to treatments of living Kansas governors and the evolution debate, while also touching points in between." Some of the films reviewed include: "The Learning Tree," written and produced by Gordon Parks in 1969; "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson," produced by Robert Altman in 1976; "McCage & Mrs. Miller," directed by Robert Altman in 1971; "Through Martha's Eyes," directed and produced by Chuck Cranston in 2006; "Touched by Fire: Bleeding Kansas," produced by Kenneth R. Spurgeon and Jonathan Goering in 2005; locally produced "Bad Blood: The Border War That Triggered the Civil War," produced by Pamela Reichart for KCPT in 2007, as well as eight other films. Reviews are written by various people.
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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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Lawmaker, Lawbreaker: Henry Newton Brown
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Short account of the career of Henry Newton Brown, who served as City Marshall of Caldwell, Kansas, before being captured during a failed bank robbery and excuted in April of 1884. Brown, a native of Missouri, rode with Billy the Kid and participated in the infamous Lincoln County War between ranchers and merchants in New Mexico circa 1878.
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2007
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Magazine Article
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Silver! OCTA Turns 25
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The whole issue of "Overland Journal" is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of its publication. It includes reprinted earlier articles found in the journal and elsewhere. Most of the articles deal with the subject of trail preservation and the Oregon-California Trails Association's involvement in it over the years.
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Efforts Underway to Protect Wheatley-Provident Hospital
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Article concerns efforts by a number of agencies to attain landmark status for Wheatley-Provident Hospital. It also provides a brief history of the hospital established by Dr. J. Edward Perry in 1910.
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2007
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Magazine Article
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