History of Kansas City

Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is Surrounded With much diffidence on the part of the writer the following pages are submitted to the public. They are the result of much patient research, yet none can be better aware of the imperfections in details than the writer. It has been rather the aim to trace the causes that have led to the almost phenomenal growth of Kansas City, than to follow the details of that growth; yet sufficient attention has been given to the leading events in the history of Kansas City, it is hoped, to convey an idea of them, as well as to the causes that led to them and to the development here of the city that at this time exists. The writer believes that the causes leading to the development of the city in any one epoch of her history were but the development of causes in a preceeding epoch, and that the causes of future development exist at this time, which are as much the outgrowth of past causes as the present large city is the outgrowth of past events. Some effort has been made to bring to view these causes both past and present, it is hoped not without some success. As it is, it is respectfully submitted to public criticism, with the hope that its accounts and conceptions of things may coincide with the recollections of those of our citizens who were witnesses of many of the events it recounts, yet with the fear that they will find much that for accuracy's sake they could wish altered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.