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Author : George Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041623468
Author : George Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015009265953
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026894933
Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.
Author : Janice Lee,David Boutros,Charlotte R. White,Deon Wolfenbarger
Publisher : Kansas City Center for Design Education & Research
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C090898549
Author : Carrie Westlake Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : History
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092229297
Author : John Simonson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664131
Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.
Author : Andrew Theodore Brown,Lyle W. Dorsett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Kansas City (Mo.)
ISBN : UOM:39015007214243
An interpretive history covering the early 1800s to present that details the success story behind Kansas City's exciting growth.
Author : James R. Shortridge
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618828
Think of Kansas City and you'll probably think of barbecue, jazz, or the Chiefs. But for James Shortridge, this heartland city is more than the sum of its cultural beacons. In Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822-2011, a prize-winning geographer traces the historical geography of a place that has developed over 200 years from a cowtown on the bend of the Missouri River into a metropolis straddling two states. He explores the changing character of the community and its component neighborhoods, showing how the city has come to look and function the way it does—and how it has come to be perceived the way it has. Proximity to Great Plains ranches and farms encouraged early and sustained success for Kansas City meatpackers and millers, and Shortridge shows how local responses to economic realities have molded the city's urban structure. He explores the parallel processes of suburbanization and the restructuring of older areas, and tells what happens when transportation shifts from rivers to railroads, then to superhighways and international airports. He also reveals what historians have missed by tending to focus attention only on one side or the other of the state boundary. The book is a virtual who's who of KC progress: without selective law enforcement under political boss Thomas Pendergast, Kansas City would not enjoy its legacy of jazz; without the gift of Thomas Swope's namesake park, upscale residential expansion likely would have gone east instead of south; and without J. C. Nichols, Johnson County suburbs would have developed in a less spectacular manner. Its insight into important molders of the city includes nearly forgotten names such as William Dalton, Charles Morse, and Willard Winner, plus important figures from more recent years including Kay Barnes, Charles Garney, and Bonnie Poteet. With more than 50 photos and dozens of maps specially created for this book, Kansas City and How It Grew is unique in treating the entire metropolitan area instead of just one portion. With coverage ranging from ethnic neighborhoods to development strategies, it's an indispensable touchstone for those who want to try to understand Kansas City as both a city and a place.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030603070
Author : Diane Mutti Burke,John P. Herron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132262507
The fourteen articles in this anthology, previously published in the Missouri Historical Review, examine multiple facets of Kansas City's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with events prior to the settlement of the area, the essays describe important episodes in the social, economic, racial, and political life of Kansas City. Boss Tom Pendergast, conflict between incoming Mormons and earlier settlers, and a young female teacher's experience in the 1840s all figure into this rich history of the Kansas City area.
Author : Leigh Ann Little,John M. Olinskey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780738590967
In 1821, François Chouteau set up a fur-trading outpost along the Missouri River, bringing the first settlement of Europeans to what would become Kansas City, named after the Kansa tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the area. At the center of a growing nation, the "City on the Bluff" would build and thrive as a river town, a gateway to the West, and a railroad hub, absorbing the influences of pioneers and immigrants traveling through or making it their home. Striving to become "A City Beautiful," its parks and boulevards drew attention from around the world. These are the beginnings of a town carved out of a hillside in the wilderness, transformed into an exciting metropolis that would eventually be called home by Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway, Jesse James, and many others who left a lasting mark on history.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000091002844
Author : G. S. Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943338027
RACISM IN KANSAS CITY: A SHORT HISTORY BY G.S. GRIFFIN FOREWORD BY ALVIN BROOKS Anti-black racism still infects American society. African Americans are more likely than whites to be killed by police, to be pulled over, arrested, imprisoned, and executed. They are more likely to be turned down for a job, to be underpaid, or offered a bad home loan than equally qualified whites. Racism's effects are tragic. The killing of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, triggered riots. A white terrorist massacred black worshipers in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight black churches were burned in the South in ten days. Kansas Citians, like so many others across the nation, wonder, "Could it happen here?" The answer lies in this study of Kansas City's darkest moments-slavery, the border war, the Civil War, bombings of black homes, lynchings, the segregation of neighborhoods and schools, the civil rights struggle, the Black Panther movement, the 1968 race riot, assassinations in the 1970s, the infamous Missouri v. Jenkins U.S. Supreme Court case, and the racial inequities that still plague Kansas City today. Threaded throughout Racism in Kansas City are stories of those who fought ardently against racist policies...and sometimes won. Racism in Kansas City, in the end, offers readers a hopeful message: with awareness comes understanding and then change.
Author : Carolyn Glenn Brewer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574418316
The New Yorker recently referred to Pat Metheny as “possibly the most influential jazz guitarist of the past five decades.” A native of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, just southeast of Kansas City, Metheny started playing in pizza parlors at age fourteen. By the time he graduated from high school he was the first-call guitarist for Kansas City jazz clubs, private clubs, and jazz festivals. Now 66, he attributes his early success to the local musical environment he was brought up in and the players and teachers who nurtured his talent and welcomed him into the jazz community. Metheny's twenty Grammys in ten categories speak to his versatility and popularity. Despite five decades of interviews, none have conveyed in detail his stories about his teenage years. Beneath Missouri Skies also reveals important details about jazz in Kansas City during the sixties and early seventies, often overlooked in histories of Kansas City jazz. Yet this time of cultural change was characterized by an outstanding level of musicianship. Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer shows how his keen sense of ensemble had its genesis in his school band under the guidance of a beloved band director. Drawn from news accounts, archival material, interviews, and remembrances, to which the author had unique access, Beneath Missouri Skies portrays a place and time from which Metheny still draws inspiration and strength.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112119651963