Kansas City, America's crossroads
Subtitle: essays from the Missouri historical review, 1906-2006
By: edited with an introduction by Diane Mutti Burke and John Herron.
Contributors: Burke, Diane Mutti.; Herron, John P., 1968-; State Historical Society of Missouri.
Series: Century of Missouri history scholarship series
Publisher: State Historical Society of Missouri
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780962289170
Subjects: Kansas City (Mo.) -- History.
Other titles: Missouri historical review.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical sketch of Kansas City from the beginning to 1909 / H.C. McDougal; title: Confluence of people and place : the Chouteau posts on the Missouri and Kansas rivers / David Boutros; title: The expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri / Warren A. Jennings; title: From Virginia to Missouri in 1846 : the journal of Elizabeth Ann Cooley / edited by Edward D. Jervey and James E. Moss; title: General Orders No. 11 and border warfare during the Civil War / Ann Davis Niepman; title: Beginning of the park and boulevard movement in frontier Kansas City, 1872-1882 / William H. Wilson; title: The Kansas City meat packing industry before 1900 / G.K. Renner; title: Kansas City free speech fight of 1911 / Tom N. McInnis; title: The 1918 Kansas City influenza epidemic / Kevin C. McShane; title: "Nearest by air to everywhere" : aviation promotion in Kansas City, 1925-1931 / James P. Leyerzapf; title: Criminal aspects of the Pendergast machine / Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston; title: Chester A. Franklin and Harry S. Truman : an African American conservative and the "conversion" of the future president / Thomas D. Wilson; title: "Just like the garden of Eden" : African American community life in Kansas City's Leeds / Gary R. Kremer; title: It finally happened here : the 1968 riot in Kansas City, Missouri / Joel P. Rhodes.