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Title
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Steamboats on the Missouri River
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Description
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Extensive, well-researched book on the subject of steamboating on the Missouri River during the time frame of its beginning in 1819 to its eventual demise in 1935. The author states in the preface, "In researching and writing this book, my primary objective was to emphasize the economic history of Missouri River steamboating." Topics of local interest include: Kansas City and Missouri River Transportation Company, Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, William Ashley, cholera, Fort Leavenworth, the fur trade, etc. Includes an exhaustive index and bibliography.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Navigation of the Upper Missouri
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Description
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Extract taken from an "exchange paper" giving the account of the voyage of the steamboat "El Paso" up the Missouri River to the mouth of the Milk River. The "El Paso" left St. Louis on May 6, 1850, and made the trip up and back in 56 days. "We passed the point where the steamer Assineboin had wintered some years ago--the highest point ever before or since attained by steamboats. The Assineboin, it is remembered, was frozen, and before the end of winter entirely broken up." The article states that the Milk River "is 'right away in the Indian country,' three hundred and fifty miles, more or less, above the mouth of the Yellow Stone river...."
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Date
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1850-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri River Hydrographic Survey: Pomeroy-Weavers Bends
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Description
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Map of Pomeroy-Weavers Bends of the Missouri River, in Platte County, Missouri and Wyandotte County, Kansas. Soundings across the width of the river are listed at every tenth of a mile. Topographic features such as dikes, revetments, railroad lines, industrial sites are indicated.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Missouri River Hydrographic Survey: Quindaro-Parkville-Pomeroy Bends
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Description
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Map of the Quindaro-Parkville-Pomeroy Bends of the Missouri River, in Platte County, Missouri and Wyandotte County, Kansas. Soundings across the width of the river are listed at every tenth of a mile. Topographic features such as dikes, revetments, railroad lines, industrial sites along the river are indicated.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Missouri River Hydrographic Survey: Quindaro Bend
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Description
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Map of the Quindaro Bend of the Missouri River, in Platte County, Missouri and Wyandotte County, Kansas. Soundings across the width of the river are listed at every tenth of a mile. Topographic features such as dikes, revetments, railroad lines are indicated, as well as major industrial sites along the river.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Missouri River Hydrographic Survey: Pomeroy Bend
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Description
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Map of the Pomeroy Bend of the Missouri River, in Platte County, Missouri and Wyandotte County, Kansas. Soundings across the width of the river are listed at every tenth of a mile. Topographic features such as dikes, revetments, railroad lines, industrial sites are indicated.
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Inter-City Viaduct, Kansas City, Mo.
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Description
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Postcard showing the Intercity Viaduct leading from the West Bottoms into Kansas City, Kansas. The Missouri River can be seen.
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Date
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1913
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Missouri River, River Scene
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Description
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Postcard of the Missouri River near showing Parkville, Missouri. The view was captured from Quindaro, Kansas.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Lewis and Clark Across Missouri: The Journey Ends
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Description
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Map of the state of Missouri depicting the return journey of the Lewis and Clark Expedition down the Missouri River to St. Louis in September, 1806. Includes dates and locations of each expedition campsite, the hydrography of the Missouri River, land grants, forts, towns and villages of 1806.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Missouri River, River Scene
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Description
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Postcard of the Missouri River showing a steamboat traveling upon it.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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An Historical Study of Showboat Theatre on the Missouri River
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Description
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Thesis toward a master's degree from Central Missouri State College about the history of showboat theater on the Missouri River, describing the showboats themselves and their operators, "the types of entertainment given by them, and the staging practices used by them," from 1908 to 1940 and only between Kansas City and Saint Louis, with illustrations and map.
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Date
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1965-08
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Object Type
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Thesis/Dissertation
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Title
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1908 Flood, Morris Packing Plant
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Description
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Postcard of the Morris Packing Plant in the West Bottoms in Kansas City, Kansas, during the 1908 flood.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Lewis and Clark Across Missouri: The Journey Begins
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Description
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Map of the state of Missouri depicting the journey of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Fort Jefferson at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, up the Missouri River, from November, 1803 to July, 1804. Includes dates and locations of each expedition campsite, the hydrography of the Missouri River, land grants, forts, towns and villages of 1803-4.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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SC145 Stigers Island Collection
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Description
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The Stigers Island Collection consists of a land abstract that details the ownership of Stigers Island. Over time, the size and location of the island were affected by changes in the Missouri River.
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Date
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1890/1900
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Ferries in Kansas: Part I--Missouri River
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Description
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First in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Missouri River.
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Date
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1933-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Geological Map of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Map detailing geological features of Kansas City. Different colors are used to show geological features and a street map is superimposed over the geological information.
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Date
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1917
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Craig Quadrangle
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Description
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Topographical map of parts of Holt County in Missouri and Richardson County, Nebraska, including the towns of Rulo, Nebraska, and Craig, Missouri. Numerous schools, churches, and roads are depicted, as well as the Missouri River and local railroads.
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Date
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1920
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Object Type
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Map
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