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  • Image 1 of Westport, 1812-1912 .
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 2 of Westport, 1812-1912 .
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 3 of Westport, 1812-1912 . F 474 MS3 US Copy 1 2^ 1812 -1912
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
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    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
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    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
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    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 7 of Westport, 1812-1912 . WESTPORT 1812—1912. Commemorating the Centennial of the Santa Fe Trail. Westport s History from its beginning as a frontier post until its annexation to Kansas City. Westport s many springs and pasture...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 8 of Westport, 1812-1912 . ^Wt ^Wf^ Manuscript Submitted to the Editorial Committee; Prof. William T. Longshore, Rev. Father James T. Walsh. Rev. George P. Baity, Prof. Stephen A Underwood, Col. William McKendery Johnson, Copyriglated 1912, By...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 9 of Westport, 1812-1912 . The Wcstpork Improvement Association, Incd., Ltd. IN CHARGE OF SANTA FE TRAIL AND BATTLE OF WBSTPORT REUNION AND CARNIVAL. Mill Cklek Parkway, South of Westport Avenue, August 31st to September Sth, inclusive,...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 10 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Directors of Ceremony Santa Fe Trail licunion. Miss Elizabeth Gentry, Samuel P. Chiles, Col. William M. Johnson, L. A. Allen, William Z. Hickman, Napoleon Boone. Directors of Ceremony Battle of Westport Jieuaion....
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 11 of Westport, 1812-1912 . iJescrttdanis uf l: oldiers of tlie Mexican War. Mrs. W. K. Bradbury, Mrs. Oscar H. Davis, Mrs. James Lobb, Mrs. W. A. Kule, Miss Beriiice Peacock, Claude Boland, Mable Hunter Quarles, Mrs....
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 12 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Loyal Legion. Col. C. F. jVlorse, Dr. E. W. ScliaulHer, Col. John F. Philips. Capt. M. B. Wright, Dr. David R. Porter, Col. John Conover, Hon. Chas. W. Clark, Francis D. Askew,...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 13 of Westport, 1812-1912 . MUNUMEiNT-BUiLDliNG AND MAHKING THE TRAIL. Over the entrance of the Old Santa F6 Trail road into the uld city of Santa Fe the citizens of Santa Fe have erected a beautiful arch,...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 14 of Westport, 1812-1912 . THE OLD SAXTA FE TRAIL. Paeticularly Its Developaiext by the Sons OF Missouri. A hundred years is the brief day of man. Tfiis article only briefly leads u]) to the day of...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 15 of Westport, 1812-1912 . of France, in 1803 entered into a treaty by means of whith the United States came into possession of this territory. Sturdy are the Saxon faces As they move along the line....
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 16 of Westport, 1812-1912 . in IBlxJ L apt. Wm. Beckneilj who had been ou a trading expedition witli the Comanche Indians in the summer of 1811, organized a pack-mule train to start from Old Franklin, Mis-...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 17 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Trail. Franklin, Missouri, is called the Cradle of the Trail. ComjTierical Westport, where we meet in tliis reunion, was, after 1833, tlie outfitting point for the frontiersmen. Old Franklin is 187 miles...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 18 of Westport, 1812-1912 .
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 19 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Again, the 15th: We arrived at Santa Fe and were received with apparent pleasure and joy. The da}- after my arrival I accepted an invitation to visit tlie Governor, whom I found...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 20 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Long liefore old Teciimseh Sherman inarched his blue-coats to the sea, opening a national highway tJirough the South, Gen- eral Zachary Taylor s reinforcement*, under General Doniphan, marched from Forf Leavenworth to...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 21 of Westport, 1812-1912 . But, First/ said she, Joe Bowers, Before we hitch for life, You ought to get a little home. To take j-our little wife. Well, now/ said I, my Sally, It is just...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 22 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Well, it had the darndest news That ever one did hear; Said Sally had maraied a butcher, And that the butcher had red hair. And it had some other news That nearly...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 23 of Westport, 1812-1912 . OLD WESTPORT When pioneers came to what is now Jackson County in tlie early part of the nineteenth century, they reasoned that some- where near the junction of the Missouri and Kaw...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 24 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Carolina, and Tennessee selected the name of Jaclcson for their county and Independence for their county seat. The county court of Jackson County held its first meeting in Independence, July 2, 1827....
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 25 of Westport, 1812-1912 . was only four miles north to the Missouri River, while it was eighteen miles to the Blue Mills Landing or Wayne City. Pierre Roi, a Frenchman, built a read from Westport directly...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 26 of Westport, 1812-1912 . 1847 Mr. McCree sold out to John (Jnekj Hurnt, whu cDuducLed the Harris House there until 18G4. Jauies H. Hunter was the first saddler and afterwards a suLceisful ujerchant. Robert Johnson operated...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 27 of Westport, 1812-1912 . parts of tlie country came to Westport to organize caravans for journeys across the plains. Almost every type of man in tlic West could be seen on the streets of Westport. Westport...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 28 of Westport, 1812-1912 . S. F. and W. H. Keller; S. C. Koby; J. Ix. Hamilton; Gallup; Frederick Esslinger; Edward Price; Henry Sager; Francis Booth; r. D. Elkms; F. G. Ewing; W. M. Chick; Colvin Smiih...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 29 of Westport, 1812-1912 . 8TEAMB0ATING IN THE SANTA FE TlLUl, DAYS. A set of gilded deer horns were the trophies of speed. Tlie arbitrary rule of the river was that the fastest boat wore the horns....
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 30 of Westport, 1812-1912 . The Kit (Jarson, uaiued after tlie noted plainsmau, burned at the levee in St. Louis in 1849. Captain N. J. Eaton was in command. A side- wheel boat was built m 1860,...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 31 of Westport, 1812-1912 . caiue tu Kansas City un Llie Williatu Campbell, a boat named after llie writer s uucle. i lie steamer was eonimanded by Cap- tain William Jildds (pronounced Eads), tlie man who brought...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 32 of Westport, 1812-1912 . intellectual supremacy and its beautiful homes. It is a residence district vvitii a personality, hospitable, progressive. From its homes radiate a grace and culture that bespeak purity and sense in women, honor,...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 33 of Westport, 1812-1912 . DO^vTIPHAX S EXPEDITION. By Hon. Roland Hughes. Doniphan s Expedition was the most important event in American history since the War for Independence and the adop- tion of tlie Constitution. The expedition...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 34 of Westport, 1812-1912 . In pursuance of this plan John F. Edwards, Governor of Missouri, about the rniddle of May, 1846, issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to rendezvous at Fort IjC^venworth, and thus create the...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 35 of Westport, 1812-1912 . W. B. D. Moore Acting Surgeon I. F. Morton Acting Surgeon James Lea Quartermaster F. C. Hnghee Sergeant Nieholaa Snider Bugler This command commenced its march from Fort Leaven- worth on the...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 36 of Westport, 1812-1912 . garrison at Santa Fe to administer the affairs of the new terri- tory, and Col. Kearney and Col. Doniphan separated their com- mands. Col. Kearney marched across the country west to the...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 37 of Westport, 1812-1912 . COL. ALEXANDER W. DONIPHAN.
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 38 of Westport, 1812-1912 . oration and preeented Col. Doniphar with a laurel wreath, the gift of beauty to valor, Eespected Friends: Long had the world edioed to the voice of Fame when her brazen trumpet spoke...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 39 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Volunteers of Missouri In the history of your coun- try, nd brighter page can be found than that which records your own bright deeds. Many of you had never welcomed the morn-...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912
  • Image 40 of Westport, 1812-1912 . Simeon Oldham Second Lieutenant John S. Webb First Sergeant Richard B. Buckner Sergeant Samuel S. White Sergeant Richard Simpson Sergeant James Munday Corporal Thos. Moore Corporal Jesse Frierson Corporal William E. Bush...
    • Contributor: Westport Improvement Association, Kansas City, MO
    • Date: 1912