History, U.S.-iana, United States History. Missouri, Americana, American History, U. Then decade by decade, the city's growth through the 20th century is documented, through corruption and war and depression and success and finally - as the 21st century looms - a new civic understanding of its past. Here, the great themes of the city's rowdy 19th century adolescence are brought to life. Failed Technology: True Stories of Technological Disasters, by Fran Locher Freiman focusing on engineering failures of the twentieth century. On the rails and through the stockyards and out of the packinghouses and grain elevators and mills and bakeries, the city skyrocketed to prominence. 22 results - Richard Montgomery may also have lived outside of Kansas City, such as Poplar Bluff, Bethany and 2 other cities in Missouri. Kansas City: An American Story, by Rick Montgomery and Shirl Kasper contains a pictorial explanation of the disaster, pp. Stifled by the bitter animosities and the destruction of the Civil War, the tiny City of Kansas awaited the coming of The Bridge, the first over the Missouri River and the herald of the railroads. From its earliest known settlement as a tiny agency for the great WEstern fur-trading interests to today's sprawling, diversified, multicounty metropolis, Kansas City's story is drama, tragedy, success and high hopes rolled into one. From dust jacket: Here is a comprehensive, richly illustrated account of a crossroads that made it big - Kansas City. Quarto, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus.
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