Cowtown Chronicles: Murder Most Foul on the Santa Fe Trail
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Cowtown Chronicles: Murder Most Foul on the Santa Fe Trail
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Illustration and story about "the plot to rob wealthy trader Antonio Chavez" hatched at Yoacham Tavern in 1843 Westport, describing the futile efforts of the tavern's owner, Daniel Yoacham (dying in 1846), to prevent Don Antonio Jose Chavez's murder, vindicated by the capture of the murderers and hanging of their leaders, David McDaniel and John McDaniel, in Saint Louis in 1844.
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Creator: Baumgartner, R. David
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2000-09
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Kansas City Magazine
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Page 30: "It was about 1825 when Dan [Yoacham] first built a two-room, log cabin with a fireplace at each end in the little valley where Spring Branch Creek crossed the beginnings of the wagon road to Santa Fe, near where today Mill Street meets Westport Road. ..By the mid 1830s Dan. ..had greatly expanded the tavern and had furnished food and lodgeing to such personages as Washington Irving, Daniel Morgan Boone, Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, Jothan Meeker and Issac [sic] McCoy."
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q977.8411 K1699
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Restriction on Access
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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