Kansas City is often seen as a "cow town" with great barbecue and steaks. But it is also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila's Hair Museum has a collection that brings tourists from all over the nation. The Kansas City Jazz Museum features a historic district and world-class museum that document a time when dance halls, cabarets, speakeasies and even honky-tonks and juke joints f... Read More
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Kansas City is often seen as a "cow town" with great barbecue and steaks. But it is also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila's Hair Museum has a collection that brings tourists from all over the nation. The Kansas City Jazz Museum features a historic district and world-class museum that document a time when dance halls, cabarets, speakeasies and even honky-tonks and juke joints f... Read More
Kansas City is often seen as a "cow town" with great barbecue and steaks. But it is also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila's Hair Museum has a collection that brings tourists from all over the nation. The Kansas City Jazz Museum features a historic district and world-class museum that document a time when dance halls, cabarets, speakeasies and even honky-tonks and juke joints fostered the development of a new musical style. Join author Paul Kirkman as he cuts a trail past the stockyards into the heart of America--Kansas City.
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Pages: 144
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Series: History & Guide
Publication Date: 19th October 2020
State: Missouri
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781467144407
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) HISTORY / United States / General
Author Bio
Paul Kirkman is an author, historian and speaker who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, Shawn, and daughter, Shannon. Paul has his BA in history from Columbia College and has worked as an archival assistant in the Archives of the Kansas City Department of Parks, Recreation & Boulevards and as a speaker for the State Historical Society of Missouri Speakers' Bureau. Paul coauthored Lockdown: Outlaws, Lawmen & Frontier Justice in Jackson County, Missouri with archivist David W. Jackson of the Jackson County, Missouri Historical Society.
Kansas City is often seen as a "cow town" with great barbecue and steaks. But it is also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila's Hair Museum has a collection that brings tourists from all over the nation. The Kansas City Jazz Museum features a historic district and world-class museum that document a time when dance halls, cabarets, speakeasies and even honky-tonks and juke joints fostered the development of a new musical style. Join author Paul Kirkman as he cuts a trail past the stockyards into the heart of America--Kansas City.
Pages: 144
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Series: History & Guide
Publication Date: 19th October 2020
State: Missouri
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781467144407
Format: Paperback
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) HISTORY / United States / General
Paul Kirkman is an author, historian and speaker who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, Shawn, and daughter, Shannon. Paul has his BA in history from Columbia College and has worked as an archival assistant in the Archives of the Kansas City Department of Parks, Recreation & Boulevards and as a speaker for the State Historical Society of Missouri Speakers' Bureau. Paul coauthored Lockdown: Outlaws, Lawmen & Frontier Justice in Jackson County, Missouri with archivist David W. Jackson of the Jackson County, Missouri Historical Society.
