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161. War in Kansas: A Rough Trip to the Border among New Homes and a Strange People War in Kansas: A Rough Trip to the Border among New Homes and a Strange People //1856 Colorful if crude journal entry regarding a stay at "'old man Harris's' most uncomfortable 'hotel,' in Westport."
162. Geary and Kansas--Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas with a Complete History of the Territory Geary and Kansas--Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas with a Complete History of the Territory until July 1857 //1857 Colorful and literary description of border ruffians between Kansas City and Westport and how people dealt with them leading up to the Civil War.
163. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Description of "O. F. Short, Esq." as the buyer of a "parcel of the old Chouteau tract" and potential buyer of "the brick building adjoining the large wholesale and importing house of the Messrs. Shannon...
164. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Thorough description of the caravans of covered wagons passing through Kansas City's Grand Avenue, for trade with Santa Fe, New Mexico, "which consisted last year of over nine thousand wagons."
165. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Comparisons of Kansas City's topography, from the levee to Westport, to Chicago and of its growth to Chicago, Memphis, Savannah, and Philadelphia.
166. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Illustration of the "residence of William Gillis, Esq."
167. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Description of the importance of the Southwestern trade of the 1840s and 1850s to the economy of Westport and Kansas City. This included the Mexican War and California Gold Rush.
168. Central Pacific Railway Route Memorial to the Congress of the U. S. Central Pacific Railway Route Memorial to the Congress of the U. S. //1858 Publication directed to the federal government arguing in favor of a transcontinental rail route through Kansas City because of natural geographic factors, with notable 1858 publication imprint.
169. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Great Western Plains Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Great Western Plains //1858 General description of pre-Civil War Kansas City, recognized as the third book published in Kansas City.
170. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Illustration evidently of a hotel, labeled "Western Exchange, M'Gee's Addition, Kansas City."
171. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Description of the site of the city in 1858 as a "poor and costly place to build a city," with its "bluffs, ridges and ravines," but that "the same thing has been done in almost every city of the Union...
172. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Passage of the book speculating about reasons for Germans moving to the Kansas City area, considering factors of black slavery, climate, and geographical features.
173. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Mention of the population of Kansas City in 1856, including numbers of types of early businesses.
174. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Detailed description of the extension of Grand Avenue south to Westport from Kansas City in 1857, "decidedly one of the handsomest and most attractive streets in the State--and is evidently destined to...
175. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Information about Indian trade, starting with 1839.
176. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Description of King's Addition, a parcel of land containing Broadway and Wyandotte Streets in Kansas City, owned by H. H. King upon his purchase of it from Chester Hubbard in 1855. Sold in earlier 1855...
177. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Mention of Reverend Edward Peery as "our pioneer parson" and owner of the Peery Place addition to Kansas City, "laid off by our experienced and scientific City Engineer, Mr. Edward O'Flaherty."
178. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains. .. //1858 Quote from a Colonel E. C. McCarty, "one of our [Kansas City's] largest warehouse, grocery and commission merchants," on his observations of the Santa Fe trade since 1828, including comments on wagon preparation...
179. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 Chapter of the book about the demand for but surprising lack of railroads in Kansas City, describing its untapped potential as a transporation center.
180. Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains //1858 (1950 for second edition) Description of the purchase of a tract of land in Kansas City in 1855 from "Madame Chouteau" by Kersey Coates, referred to as "Coates' Addition," with the Coates House hotel being built on it in 1858.