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Drips Family Genealogy
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Information on the family of Major Andrew Drips (1790-1860, according to this source), with biographical sketches of him and his relatives from family Bible records.
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Vertical File
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Albert Gallatin Boone Genealogy
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File contains photocopies of records of Boone family history from writings in a Bible, with photos of Albert Boone.
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Vertical File
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Bookin' West: Tall Tales and "Books of Every Sort and Size From Fanny Hill to The Bible on The Journey West
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This bibliographic essay examines the books widely read in the nineteenth century that had an influence on pioneers. It includes extracts from various journals and letters of pioneers that mention the books they took on their overland journeys. The books most included on the journey were the family Bible, anything written by Shakespeare, Webster's dictionary, guidebooks, and children's readers, etc. "During their journey westward, emigrants and adventurers brought, bought, borrowed, traded, cast off, or picked up books whenever it suited. Perhaps their greatest legacy was to leave behind their own writings--diaries, journals, letters, and reminiscences--which continue to fuel twenty-first-century imaginations with epic stories of heroes, romance, and adventure."
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2007
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Magazine Article
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John Johnson Material
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This folder of material includes newspaper clippings which include Johnson's obituary, typescripts of 11 letters dated 1853-1875, family record pages from a family Bible, photocopies of photographs of John and Diana Johnson as well as Emily and Holly Jarboe, and a photocopied will of Peter Hoagland. The letters were written from Kansas and Kansas City, Mo., by John L. Johnson or family members. Mention is made of the national political situation of the time, the border warfare difficulties experienced in Kansas and Missouri and early situations in Kansas City.
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Manuscript
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Old Pino--How Old Was He?
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Biographical article about Jacques Fournais, a fur trapper born supposedly in the 1750s in Quebec, Canada, and working with Major Andrew Drips by 1832 in Kansas City, staying with Drips's daughter, Catherine Mulkey, at the time of his death, at an age "variously estimated at 110 to 134 years."
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1971-07-06
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Newspaper Article
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