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Title: Historic Old Westport
Description: Map showing historic Westport, Missouri. Includes current and original street names, location of homes and businesses (including original and modern site, if relocated).
Object Type: Map

Title: One of Old West Port's Personalities
Description: Biographical article about Duke Simpson (1795-1853), assistant blacksmith with his father Richard Duke Simpson, or Richard Simpson (ca. 1770-1853) for the Shawnee Indians in Westport in the 1840s. Also "once famed in Westport for having probably the most expensive house in the town."
Date: 1974-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Map of Battle Field of Westport
Description: Map depicting car lines, Union Army, confederate Army, known battery locations, and heavy fighting sabers. "Covering territory from Brush Creek on the North to Indian Creek on the South, and lying between the Big Blue River on the East and the State line on the West, covering approximately 68 sq. miles, also, small territory on Rock Creek East of the Big Blue River covering about 5 square miles."
Date: 1923-08
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 - Oregon * North California in the Years 1843-44
Description: Map showing the territories explored by John C. Fremont on his journey from the mouth of the Kansas River to the Pacific Ocean in 1843. An elevation profile of the route is provided along the top of the map. A quote from Fremont's report and accompanying note is included.
Date: 1845
Object Type: Map