Kansas City, city, seat (1866) of Wyandotte county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers and is contiguous with Kansas City, Missouri. When the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived at the river junction in 1
Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Railroad Central Pacific Railroad Chicago and North Western Railroad Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railroad ...
The company had difficulty obtaining strong financial backing and the onset of the Civil War in 1861 further delayed construction. Not until 1865 after the war was over did the Pacific Railroad finally reach Kansas City to the west, the first to so do.A...
Erie/Erie Lackawanna's double-tracked, Chicago main line is gone entirely from the Ohio state line to the Windy City. Pennsylvania Railroad's "Panhandle" main line to St. Louis (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis), another double-tracked route, is largely gone west of Columbus, Oh...
Other city tour highlights: the Victorian Charles Curtis House Museum (open by appointment only), Col. John and Mary Richie House (a stop on the Underground Railroad), the Combat Air Museum (which includes a flight simulator), and the Kansas Museum of History, home to an 1880s Atchison, ...
The Rich History of Toluca The Beginning – 1887 On August 18, 1887, William Twist completed a track of the Santa Fe railroad in what is now present Toluca to link Kansas City to Chicago. He proposed that it would be a good site for a train stop. The stop, located 114 miles southwest...
Drawing on original research in primary sources, this comprehensive study covers such topics as the Constitution of 1875, the impact of railroad expansion, the 1904 World's Fair, the Populist and Progressive movements, and World War I. It also deals with less familiar topics, such as the ...
From her escape from slavery through the dangerous missions she led to liberate hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad, the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman is told. Released: 2019 Directed by: Kasi Lemmons 3 Just Mercy Brie Larson, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx 6 votes...
In Panama: Transcontinental railroad and canal projects … of 1846 had granted the United States a right-of-way through the isthmus and thus the right to intervene to protect the line and free transit across the continent. Political turmoil raged while construction was under way. Panama inaugurate...
Grasshoppers warming themselves on railroad tracks did stop trains but not exactly like this. By September, the plague had moved eastward out of Kansas, leaving a state devastated by insects. The corn crop was nearly gone and the wheat crop substantially damaged. Gardens and fruit trees were tot...