Descriptions of Kansas City by Irving and Benton
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Descriptions of Kansas City by Irving and Benton
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Description of the visits by Washington Irving (in Independence in 1832) and Senator Thomas Hart Benton (at Kansas City in 1853) and their descriptions of the Kansas City area, the latter's being called a "prophecy."
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Creator: Tracy, Walter P.
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1925
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Related Item
Kansas City and Its One Hundred Foremost Men
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Upon the occasion of his visit to Kansas City in 1853, Hon. Thomas Hart Benton, pointing to the section now dotted with the homes and business houses of nearly half a million people, but then dressed in the wild verdure of a primitive forest, spoke these words: 'There, gentlemen, where that rocky bluff meets and turns aside the sweeping current of this mighty river; there where the Missouri after running its southward course for nearly two thousand miles, turns eastward to the Mississippi, a large commercial and manufacturing community will congregate, and less than a generation will see a great city on those hills.' Could a prophet have spoken more truly?
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q091 T76
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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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