Kansas City
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| An early morning visitor ambles through our campsite at Blue Springs County Park, near Independence, Missouri. We shoot it with a camera, but Lewis and Clark would have shot it for dinner! | ||||||||
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| Skip displays our most important traveling cases beneath an exhibit at the National Frontier Trails Center in Independence, Missouri. On the floor, from left to right: computer case, laptop computer, and flight bag with maps. | ||||||||
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| Fort Osage, near present-day Sibley, Missouri, was the first U.S. fort to be built within the Louisiana Purchase lands. It was first established as "Fort Clark," by (guess who) William Clark in 1808, just two years after the Lewis & Clark expedition ended. Its mission was to promote the fur trade and to establish military alliances with the Osage tribes. Clark negotiated a treaty with the Osage nation that gave half of the land of what is now the state of Missouri and a big part of Arkansas to the U.S. | ||||||||
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| In 1803 Lewis and Clark saw only trees and water here. Shortly afterward, Kansas City was founded as a trading center. Travelers going west and upstream on the Missouri could continue west on the Kansas River or go north where the Missouri takes an abrupt turn. The location proved so successful over the years that the Kansas City metro area now is about the size of the state of Connecticut. | ||||||||
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| The Kansas River (at upper left) enters the Missouri River at Kansas City, Kansas. Clark wrote, "[this is]...a butifull place for a fort, good landing place, the waters of the Kansas is verry disigreeably tasted to me." Skip and Mary took his advice and did not taste the waters. We also use spell-check for our messages. | ||||||||
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