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Ford, Susan. “John F. Ramos Jr.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. The Kansas City Public Library. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

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Gross, Sylvia Marie, Matthew Long-Middleton, and Esther Honig. “What Should The West Bottoms Look Like?” Kansas City Public Media. National Public Radio. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

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Hutchison, Van William. “Greater Kansas City and the Urban Crisis, 1830-1968.” K-State K-Rex. Kansas State University, 1 Jan. 2013. Web.

 

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“Jacob Rieger And Company Liquors.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. Kansas City Public Library, n.d. Web. 01 Jan. 2015.

 

Jarrett, Susan. “The Dress Diaries.” Maggie May’s. Web. 27 Dec. 2014.

 

“The Kansas City Chronicles: Political Corruption, Crime & the Mafia.” KC Rag`. Web. 27 Dec. 2014.

 

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“Kansas City Jazz History — Venues.” Club Kaycee. University of Missouri Kansas City Library. Web. 3 Apr. 2015.

 

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“Kansas City Power and Light Company Building.” National Register of Historic Places. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, 1 Aug. 2002. Web. 29 Mar. 2015.

 

Kansas Historical Society. “Whizzo the Clown TV Show Props.” Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Foundation, 1 Oct. 2003. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.

 

“Kevin Mahogany: Biography.” Mahogany Jazz Records. Web. 15 May 2015.

 

Kline Smith, Sherrie. “When Did Charles Lindbergh Come to Kansas City?” Missouri Valley Special Collection. Kansas City Public Library, 1 Apr. 2006. Web. 7 May 2015.

 

“Laugh-O-Gram Films.” Laugh-O-Gram. Laugh-O-Gram Organization. Web. 2 May 2015.

 

Magerl, Barbara. “Esther Swirk Brown.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. The Kansas City Public Library. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

Marchant, Brent. “Leon Jordan.” Kansas City, Missouri Police Officers Memorial. KCPD Memorial. Web. 23 Feb. 2015.

 

“Martha Jane Cannary.” Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 06 Dec. 2014.

 

McFerrin, Ann. “Boley Building Profile.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. Kansas City Public Library, 1999. Web. 6 May 2015.

 

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Missouri Valley Special Collections. Kansas City Public Library, n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.

 

Montgomery, Rick. “The Hinge of Fate Swung Favorably for KC.” Civil War One Fifty. The Kansas City Star. Web. 2 Mar. 2015.

 

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Oberholtz, Chris, and Emily Rittman. “YMCA Closing 3 Area Locations in Part of Revitalization Plan.” KCTV5. 12 Mar. 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.

 

“Old News from the Kansas City Journal.” Vintage Kansas City. Web. 29 Jan. 2015

 

“Old Photos: Kansas City 1914.” Kansas City With the Russian Accent. Kcmeesha.com, n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2014.

 

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Orchant, Rebecca. “Craft Beer Expanding Faster Than Any Time Since Prohibition Ended.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com. Web. 2 Apr. 2015.

 

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Ray, Sam. “Amusement Parks.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. Kansas City Public Library. Web. 7 May 2015.

 

 

“Rieger History.” The Rieger Hotel Grill Exchange RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Jan. 2015.

 

Riley, Kimberly. “Bernard Powell.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. The Kansas City Public Library. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

Riley, Kimberly. “Daniel Arthur Holmes.”Missouri Valley Special Collections. The Kansas City Public Library. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

Riley, Kimberly. “Horace M. Peterson III.”Missouri Valley Special Collections. The Kansas City Public Library. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

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Robinson, Aaron. “12th Street Rag by Euday L. Bowman.” YouTube. Google, Inc. Web. 19 Dec. 2014.

 

Roe, Dr. Jason. “Aviation Takes Off.” Missouri Valley Special Collection. Kansas City Public Library. Web. 7 May 2015.

 

Roe, Dr. Jason. “Tripping the Light Fantastic, and Then Some.” Missouri Valley Special Collections. Kansas City Public Library. Web. 8 May 2015.

 

Rowland, Landon H. “Entrepreneur of the Gilded Age: Arthur Stilwell in Kansas City.” University of Missouri – Kansas City, 27 Oct. 2003. Web. 23 Feb. 2015.

 

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Simonson, John. Paris of the Plains. Web. 27 Dec. 2014.

 

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Sullivan, Jack. “Preserving the Memory of the KC Whiskey Riegers.” Those Pre-Pro Whiskey Men! N.p., 14 Sept. 2014. Web. 01 Jan. 2015.

 

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“Timeline.” Union Station. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Jan. 2015.

 

Trout, Carlynn. “Lucile Bluford (1911 – 2003).” Historical Missourians. The State Historical Society of Missouri. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.

 

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“Venues.” Club Kaycee: Kansas City Jazz History. Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri – Kansas City, July 2004. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.

 

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“Westside Storey.” ThisIsKC. Web. 3 Dec. 2014.

 

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“Working Class Hotels at 19th and Main Streets, Kansas City, Missouri.”National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form (n.d.): n. pag. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. Web.

 

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Book Sources:

 

Alley, Patrick, and Dona Boley. Kansas City’s Parks and Boulevards. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, 2014. Print.

 

Architecture and Building: A Journal of Investment and Construction 24 (1896). Print.

 

Arnold, Kathleen R. Contemporary Immigration in America: A State-by-state Encyclopedia. Print.

 

Babb, Joseph, and Hugh James. A Short History of the University.2nd ed. Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2011. Print.

 

Brown, Charles Carroll. Directory of American Cement Industries and Hand-book for Cement Users. 3rd. ed. Indianapolis, Ind.: Municipal Engineering, 1904. Print.

 

Burnes, Brian, and Dan Viets. Walt Disney’s Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star, 2002. Print.

 

Byrne, James P. Ireland and the Americas Culture, Politics, and History : A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2008. Print.

 

Cannary, Martha. The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane. Charlottesville, VA: U of Virginia Library, 1997. Print.

 

DeAngelo, Dory. Voices Across Time, Profiles of Early Kansas City Residents. Kansas City, MO: Tapestry Publications, 1987. Print.

 

Dement, Michael, and Jane Mobley and Vivian Strand. Kansas City, a Celebration of the Heartland. Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press, 1991. Print.

 

Dembling, Sophia, and Lisa Gutierrez. The Making of Dr. Phil: The Straight-talking True Story of Everyone’s Favorite Therapist. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Print.

 

Dodd, Monroe. Kansas City Then and Now. Vol. II. Kansas City: Kansas City Star, 2003. Print.

 

Dodd, Monroe. The Star & The City. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books, 2006.  Print.

 

“The Dodge Idea.” Power and Transmission Company 6.2-3 (1891): XIX. Print.

 

Driggs, Frank, and Chuck Haddix. Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. Print.

 

Druggists’ Circular 66. Print.

 

Electrical Engineer 1 Jan. 1891: 541. Print.

 

Gotham, Kevin. Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010. Print.
Greene, Lorenzo J., and Gary R. Kremer. Missouri’s Black Heritage. Rev. ed. Columbia: U of Missouri, 1993. Print.

 

Haber, Barbara. From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals. Simon and Schuster, 2010. Print.

 

Harris, Nancy Whitnell, and Jane Mobley. A City Within a Park: One Hundred Years of Parks and Boulevards in Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City, MO: American Society of Landscape Architects, 1991. Print.

 

Haskell, Harry. Boss-busters & Sin Hounds Kansas City and Its Star. Columbia: U of Missouri, 2007. Print.

 

Hayde, Frank R. The Mafia and The Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob. Fort Less, NJ: Barricade Books, 2010. Print.

 

Hudson, David S. The Plaza: Kansas City’s World-famous Shopping District. Prairie Village, Kan.: Harrow, 1989. Print.

 

Information Quarterly 1 (1915). Print.

 

John, Olinsky. “1887 – 1892.” Kansas City’s Fairmont Park. Kansas City: Vintage Antique Classics, 2009. Print.

 

Kansas City Crime Central: 150 Years of Outlaws, Kidnappers, Mobsters and Their Victims. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books, 2010. Print.

 

Kansas City Press Club. Men Of Affairs in Kansas City. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Press Club, 1912. Print.

 

Ladwig, Craig, ed. The Star: The First 100 Years. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Company, 1980. Print.

 

Larsen, Lawrence H., and Nancy J. Hulston. Pendergast! Columbia: U of Missouri, 1997. Print.

 

Laughlin, Michael C. Missouri Irish: The Original History of the Irish in Missouri : Kansas City, St. Louis, Trails West. 2nd ed. Kansas City, Mo.: Irish Genealogical Foundation, 2007. Print.

 

Little, Leigh Ann, and John M. Olinskey. Early Kansas City, Missouri. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2013. Print.

 

Londré, Felicia Harrison. The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P,     2007. Print.

 

Maier, Ray. History of I.A.T.S.E. Local No. 31, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes [sic] Moving Picture Technicians, Artist and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. Kansas City, MO: [International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes [sic]], 1995. Print.

 

Mathews, Bruce. Elmwood Cemetery: Stories of Kansas City. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star, 2010. Print.

 

Maxwell, H. James, and Bob Sullivan. Hometown Beer: A History of Kansas City’s Breweries. Kansas City: Omega Innovative Marketing, 1999. Print.

 

“Mrs. Nation Barred from Kansas City.” The New York Times 16 Apr. 1901. Print.

 

“Night Life of the Mortals.” The Future [Kansas City] 29 Mar. 1935: n. pag. Print.

 

Plumbers Trade Journal 1 Jan. 1907. Print.

 

Popular Mechanics 15.1 (1911). Print.

 

The Railway Conductor. Vol. 38. Order of Railway Conductors, 1921. Print.

 

Regan, Patrick. Hallmark: A Century of Caring. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Pub., 2010. Print.

 

Sandy, Wilda. Here Lies Kansas City: A Collection of Our City’s Notables and Their  Final Resting Places. Kansas City, MO: B. Schneider, 1984. Print.

 

Schirmer, Sherry Lamb. A City Divided, the Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960. Columbia: U of Missouri, 2002. Print.

 

Schirmer, Sherry Lamb. At the River’s Bend: An illustrated history of Kansas City:  Independence and Jackson County. Portland, ME: Windsor Publications, 1982.  Print.

 

Simonson, John. Paris of the Plains, Kansas City: From Doughboys to Expressways.   Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. Print.

 

Spencer, Thomas M. The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk. Columbia: U of Missouri, 2004. Print.

 

Tower, George Bates Nichols. Guide Posts on the Engineer’s Journey.: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings and Containing Many Useful Tables. New York: American Steam Boiler Insurance, 1889. Print.

 

Walter D. Rodger. Army Green. Print.

 

Weisskamp, Herbert. Hotels: An International Survey. London: Architectural P., 1968. Print.

 

What About Kansas City! An Historical Guidebook. Kansas City, MO:   Two Lane Press, 1995. Print.

 

Zieman, Mark. The Ultimate Kansas City Puzzle Book. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City  Star Books, 2002. Print.

 

Additional Sources:

 

Kansas City’s City Market booklet

 

Kansas City’s Ten-Year Plan Records

 

Kansas City Bridges, Framework of a City (published by Union Station)