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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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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
