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Title
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Jefferson's Salt Mountain: The Big Salt Plain of the Cimarron River
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about George Sibley (1782-1863), operator of Fort Osage (in present-day Jackson County, Missouri) and explorer of the Great Plains in 1811 as part of President Thomas Jefferson's mission to map the Louisiana Territory, newly a part of the United States. Description of Sibley's viewing and naming of the Grand Saline (Great Salt Plains) in Oklahoma Territory, etc.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kate Richards O'Hare: The First Lady of American Socialism, 1901-1917
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Description
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Biographical article about Kate O'Hare (1876-1948), a national leader in socialism and later feminism and prison reform, based in the Kansas City area. Native to Ottawa County, Kansas, and coming to Kansas City, Missouri, about 1885 with her parents, learning about urban living and working conditions in the West Bottoms here and operating as a social activist in Kansas City, Kansas, and other cities as a speaker and writer for radical journals such as "Appeal to Reason" and the "National Rip-Saw," etc., before being imprisoned from 1917 to 1920 at the Missouri State Penitentiary.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article