A guide to the history and natural resources of the Kansas City - St. Joseph area and surrounding communities

 

Historical Reprints



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This section of our web site presents digital  reprints of historical documents that shed light on much of the rich heritage of our small corridor of the world.  Additional reprints will be added regularly to this page so long as our personal collection will allow.  We hope that visitors to the web and local historical groups will soon assist by providing  additional content for this section.  Please review our Notes On Reprinting Standards below to better understand the methodology used in presenting these digital reproductions.

Articles of General Interest

Early History of Area Towns

Notes On Reprinting Standards

All articles are reprinted as close to the original format as possible. The following publishing guidelines will be adhered to throughout the Reprints From The Past section of this web site unless stated otherwise at the beginning of an article:

  • Any notes or comments from the publishers of WindingRiver.com will be in  [rust color and enclosed in brackets].
  • Text will be reprinted as originally published, including sentence and paragraph structure.  We may indicate with a [sic] notation or [bracketed correction], sentence structure or spelling which differs from current standards and could be confused with a reproduction error on our part.
  • We will attempt to date and identify the source of our article following the headline of the article.

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