The Autobiography of William Allen White
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The Autobiography of William Allen White
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Chapters of the book describe the journalism career in Kansas City of William Allen White, or William White, who came here in 1891 at the end of the 1880s boom. Description of the city in the early 1890s and of journalists such as Colonel Robert Van Horn, Charles Gleed, and William Rockhill Nelson, and their papers, the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Star, etc. Mention of several sites in the city, including the Kansas City Journal Building, the Centropolis Hotel, the Keith & Perry Building, the Midland Hotel, cable cars, Grand Avenue, and Main Street, etc. Also an obituary for White's daughter Mary White is on pages 217-221.
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Creator: White, William Allen
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1905-04-29
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Pages 205-206: "The Kansas City of 1891, to which I came as Childe Roland to the Dark Tower, was an overgrown country town of a hundred thousand people. It was consciously citified, like a country jake in his first store clothes. It had one ten-story building, and a score of buildings from five to seven stories. Its business area comprised a dozen blocks in something like the center of the town. To the west of the business area were the packing houses, which were inflated replicas of the stinking town slaughterhouse in Eldorado [Kansas]. Around them were the small industries of the city and the stockyards, which smelled to high heaven. And of course fringing these were the shabby, unpainted homes of the workers. North of the business district was the red-light area, segregated and properly policed. South of the business area lived the ruling class in lovely homes. ..acknowledged as a part of the necessary social order of a boom town."
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MVSC 92 W591-2
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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
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