Early Kansas City, Missouri Book, Arcadia Publishing Ascend Publishing ) *Certified organic

) *Certified organic

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and herding livestock through the city was only recently prohibited

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Early Kansas City, Missouri Book, Arcadia Publishing Ascend Publishing ) *Certified organicBy Leigh Ann Little and John M. Olinskey. 128 pages. In 1821, Franois Chouteau set up a fur trading outpost along the Missouri River, bringing the first settlement of Europeans to what would become Kansas City, named after the Kansa tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the area. At the center of a growing nation, the "City on the Bluff" would build and thrive as a river town, a gateway to the West, and a railroad hub, absorbing the influences of