Journeys through time: A young traveler's guide to Kansas City history

Dodd, Monroe

Kansas City Star Books

Let's go time traveling! Through the magic of history, we'll relive the events that created the place we call home. We'll return to the days of the fur trappers, the riverboat captains, the cowpunchers and the railroad workers - all men and women, boys and girls who built Kansas City and the area around it. We wrote this book in brief stories. Together with hundreds of photographs, these stories tell the history of the Kansas City area. As each chapter begins, the scene is set by a Time Traveler who wraps the threads of history together and brings them context and meaning. We hope this book will help you understand how Kansas City became what it is today - and prepare you for the city of the future.

The Kansas City Story For Kids

Serda, Daniel

Kansas City Then and Now

Streetcars decked out in wreaths and stars ... Toy Town at Emery, Bird, Thayer ... colorful lighted crowns dangling over downtown intersections ... The Plaza lights ... the Mayor's Christmas Tree ... Through history, these have been part of Kansas City Christmases, and they're all in this richly illustrated account by Monroe Dodd of The Kansas City Star. Christmastime in Kansas City traces our celebration from the early 19th century to today, the year's busiest holiday.

Christmastime in Kansas City: The Story of the Season

Richly documented and vividly illustrated with photographs and maps, A Splendid Ride : The Streetcars of Kansas City, takes you on those rides through town - and on a ride through time. You'll read about the coming and going of Kansas City's streetcars, the sentimental story as well as the practical one. You'll find out how we gained such a marvelous network of rails - and how we lost it.

A Splendid Ride: The Streetcars of Kansas City, 1870-1957

In 2001, Kansas City Star Books published Kansas City : Then &amp; Now to wide public acclaim. Now, more than 10,000 copies later, Star Books' author and history editor Monroe Dodd has compiled the second edition of this great collection. Combing through local archives, Dodd selected scores of rare photographs from the Kansas City's past, many of them previously unpublished. He then photographed the same scenes as they appear today. From street corners to hillsides, from the tops of buildings and from the air - you'll see Kansas City as you've rarely seen it before.

Kansas City: Then & Now 2

Experience a Kansas City of long ago but not so far away in this new paperback edition of a local bestseller. Through these historic images - paired with photographs of the same scenes today - you'll see how a town became a metropolis. More than 110 photographs dating as far back as 1860s show fascinating scenes from the past. Each scene was then rephotographed in 2000.

Kansas City: Then & Now

Show Me Justice: The Happy Life Journey of Alvin Lee Sykes: An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Sykes, Alvin

Community & Culture

Mission Point Press

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