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Title
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Savoy Grill
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Description
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Postcard showing a reproduction of one of twelve murals depicting Santa Fe Trail images once on display within the Savoy Grill at 9th and Central streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The card states that the murals were created by artist Edward Holslag. The mural shows a line of covered wagons preparing to cross a stream on the trail. The reverse side of the card reads: "Around the walls of the Savoy Grill are twelve famous murals by Edward Holslag illustrating the pioneers' hazardous trek along the Santa Fe Trail from Westport Landing to New Mexico. Featuring: Live Maine Lobster, Fresh Seafood, U.S. Graded Prime Steaks."
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Let Us Honor Those to Whom Honor Is Due
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Description
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The author relates that, by using computerized mapping with 3-D modeling, aerial photography, and a field survey with GPS and high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles, he was able to discover a previously unnoticed mountain pass and route of travel that makes the final connection between the new southern route to Oregon and the old trail to California.
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Date
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2010
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer: Chapter IV.
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Description
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Article details Peter H. Burnett's travel from Oregon to California from September to November 1848 and his time in the gold mines during the Gold Rush with his brother-in-law, John P. Rogers, and his nephew, Horace Burnett. He details the route and traveling conditions, the plight of other traveling parties, what life was like at the mines. He meets a number of old acquaintances from Missouri in the mines including "Dr. John P. Long and his brother Willis." His descriptions of encounters with Indians are telling about immigrant attitudes and immigrant-Indian relations. He relays stories of the Donner Party heard from members of that family at the mines (William Foster and Mrs. Nye).
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Date
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1904-12-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri Stories from the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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Collection of short stories from the Santa Fe Trail in Missouri, including mentions of a "integrated hotel in Independence" and early Jackson County Black entrepreneur Hiram Young.
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Date
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2020-10
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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The Journal of John Boardman: An Overland Journey from Kansas to Oregon in 1843
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Description
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A journal kept by John Boardman of his journey from the Shawnee Indian Mission in Kansas to Oregon and on to California from May 29 to November 12, 1843. Daily brief entries of one or two sentences describe weather, traveling conditions, distances traveled, trials of livestock and hunting, the landscape, buffalo, and prices of supplies.
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Date
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1929-10-01
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Object Type
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Magazine
