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| Title | Platte Purchase Route |
| Abstract | Article about the history of the Platte Purchase route, a "Historic Highway from Kansas City to St. Joseph through Platte County" and Buchanan County, Missouri, starting as an Indian trail and becoming a road or highway for white settlers upon the establishment of the Platte Purchase in 1837. |
| Notes | Page 23: "It [the Platte Purchase route] was formerly traversed by a system of stagecoaches operating between the Coates House of Kansas City and the Robidoux Tavern of St. Joseph, and many are the exciting experiences of frontiersmen who dared attempt the journey. ..[including] 'bushwhackers.'" |
| Date | August-December//2001 |
| Source | Platte County Missouri Historical and Genealogical Society Bulletin |
| Location | Periodical |
| Volume | 54 |
| Number | 3 |
| Page | 22-23 |
| Local Subject | Platte Purchase
Platte County, Missouri
Roads
Trails
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 123004 |
| CONTENTdm number | 18808 |
