scholarly journals A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES FOUND AT MARSHALL, MISSOURI, AND VICINITY

1892 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Oliver. J. Staley
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
The West ◽  
Saline County

Marshall is the county seat of Saline county, about twenty miles south of the Missouri River and eighty-nine miles east of Kansas City, and situated among woods and fields; on the west and south open farming country, and on the east and north for three or four miles woods.I have been collecting here for three years, and believing that a list of butterflies which are found here may be interesting to others I present this list.

Opening the West

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simine Short
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineer ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
The West ◽  
Chief Engineer ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Street Traffic ◽  
Santa Fe Railroad ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter details the selection of Octave Chanute to design and build a lasting bridge across the unbridged Missouri River at Kansas City. The offer to bridge the Missouri, the most difficult of all navigable streams, was a compliment for Chanute, but also a formidable challenge to his ambition as a civil engineer. The completion of the bridge called for the construction of about four hundred miles of connecting roads, bringing urbanization to the Kansas frontier. The thirty-seven-year-old Chanute built this rail system and connected it with eastern railroads, bringing profit to both systems. During the first 230 days of operation, 5,263 locomotives had pulled their load across the bridge, and $5,706 had been collected in tolls from street traffic. The chapter also describes Chanute's appointment as chief engineer of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad and his involvement in construction of the Kansas City & Santa Fe Railroad, Galveston Railroad, and Atchison & Nebraska Railroad.

Culture Sequence at the Old Fort, Saline County, Missouri

1973 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Raymond Wood
Keyword(s):  
Soil Profile ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Middle Woodland ◽  
The North ◽  
Culture Sequence ◽  
High Ridge ◽  
Habitation Site ◽  
North End ◽  
Saline County

AbstractThe Old Fort (23SA104), an earthwork enclosure and mound complex on a high ridge near the Missouri River in central Missouri, has long been considered a Middle Woodland or Hopewell construction. Excavations in 1970 cross-trenched prehistoric ditches and embankments on the north end of the enclosure. A well-developed soil profile containing predominantly Middle Woodland pottery was exposed, into which aboriginal ditches had been cut. Oneota pottery lay on the floors of these ditches, embedded in a thin laminated horizon of alluvium. Oneota and Middle Woodland pottery are mixed in ditch fills. Field data, although limited, thus support the identification of the enclosure as Oneota, aboriginally constructed on a Middle Woodland habitation site.

Locomotive to Aeromotive

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simine Short
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering

French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed America's two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas City Bridge over the previously “unbridgeable” Missouri River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose collaborative approach to aeronautical engineering problems helped the Wright brothers take flight. Drawing on a trove of archival material and exclusive family sources, this book is the first detailed examination of Chanute's life and his immeasurable contributions to the fields of engineering and transportation, from the ground transportation revolution of the mid-nineteenth century to the early days of aviation. This book brings to light many previously overlooked facets of Chanute's life, in both his professional accomplishments and his personal relationships. Through the reflections of other engineers, scientists and pioneers in various fields who knew him, the book characterizes Chanute as a man who believed in fostering and supporting people who were willing to learn. This biography cements Chanute's place as a preeminent engineer, pioneer, and mentor in the history of transportation in the United States and the development of the airplane.

The Fort Pierre Branch, Central South Dakota

1952 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Lehmer
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
River Basin ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
The West ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Central South

During the 1950 and 1951 seasons, field parties of the Missouri River Basin Survey carried on a series of excavations in the vicinity of the Oahe dam near Pierre, South Dakota. Most of the work was done at two earth lodge villages, the Dodd site (39ST30) and the Phillips Ranch site (39ST14). On the basis of the archaeological material from the Dodd and Phillips Ranch sites, and from a series of previously excavated sites located within a thirty-mile radius of the Dodd site, it seems possible to set up a sequence of cultural complexes for the area, complexes which follow one another in time and which appear to represent a series of modifications in and accretions to the earliest one known for the area.The Dodd site, located on the west bank of the Missouri River about six miles upstream from Pierre, provides the basis for the chronological seriation of the material.

K-Means and Temporal Variability in Kansas City Hopewell Ceramics

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred E. Johnson ◽  
Ann S. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variability ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Illinois River ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Clustering Technique ◽  
Illinois River Valley ◽  
The North

A temporal framework for the Kansas City Hopewell complex has been created by seriating rim sherds from four sites, within a 20-mile radius, in the Missouri River Valley to the north of Kansas City. Data used in the sedation are formal and decorative attributes of the rims. The k-means clustering technique, and an option which allows sherd locations in n-dimensional space to be plotted two-dimensionally, was used to generate the seriation. Tests of the seriation, as an essentially temporal ordering, are by means of stratigraphy, radiocarbon dates, and comparison with the ceramic sequence of the Illinois River Valley.

Business Patterns in the Growth of a Midwestern City: The Kansas City Business Community Before the Civil War

1959 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Charles N. Glaab
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Business Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Midwestern City

The Western traders who made centers like Kansas City their base soon found that urban development offered greater, safer investment opportunities than did trade. Bonanza real estate earnings became a major source of capital for the further development of the West.

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