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Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns

Patricia Cleary Miller

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Description:This first popular history of Westport, recreates Westport's noisy story from its birth as a tiny trading post in the Missouri wilderness to its vigorous present as four and one-half square miles in the middle of Kansas City, Missouri. Author Patricia Miller shows how the little trading center exploded into life when hundreds and then thousands of people going to Santa Fe, California, and Oregon made it their port to the west. The Civil War stopped this frontier prosperity and for ten years, Westport and the farms and villages along the Kansas - Missouri border were terrorized by guerrilla bands led by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill. After the war, Westport was economically shattered but over time it transformed itself from a broken farm village to a lovely suburb so enticing to its big new neighbor Kansas City that the city swallowed Westport up, annexing it in 1897. But Westport's history was far from over. It took on new life as a fashionable residential area and the city's cultural center.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns. To get started finding Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 122

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Lowell Press

Release: 1983

ISBN: 0913504823

Description: This first popular history of Westport, recreates Westport's noisy story from its birth as a tiny trading post in the Missouri wilderness to its vigorous present as four and one-half square miles in the middle of Kansas City, Missouri. Author Patricia Miller shows how the little trading center exploded into life when hundreds and then thousands of people going to Santa Fe, California, and Oregon made it their port to the west. The Civil War stopped this frontier prosperity and for ten years, Westport and the farms and villages along the Kansas - Missouri border were terrorized by guerrilla bands led by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill. After the war, Westport was economically shattered but over time it transformed itself from a broken farm village to a lovely suburb so enticing to its big new neighbor Kansas City that the city swallowed Westport up, annexing it in 1897. But Westport's history was far from over. It took on new life as a fashionable residential area and the city's cultural center.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns. To get started finding Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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