This first popular history of Westport, recreates Westport's noisy story from its birth as a tiny trading post in the Missouri wilderness to its vigorous present as four and one-half square miles in the middle of Kansas City, Missouri. 
Author Patricia Miller shows how the little trading center exploded into life when hundreds and then thousands of people going to Santa Fe, California, and Oregon made it their port to the west. 
The Civil War stopped this frontier prosperity and for ten years, Westport and the farms and villages along the Kansas - Missouri border were terrorized by guerrilla bands led by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill. 
After the war, Westport was economically shattered but over time it transformed itself from a broken farm village to a lovely suburb so enticing to its big new neighbor Kansas City that the city swallowed Westport up, annexing it in 1897. 
But Westport's history was far from over. It took on new life as a fashionable residential area and the city's cultural center.

Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns

History

Miller, Patricia Cleary

Americas

Lowell Pr

Starting a Swan Dive

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Bkmk Pr/Umkc

Poetry. CAN YOU SMELL THE RAIN? poses the old theatrical question, Who wants what, and why can't they have it? Her confused characters take themselves seriously as they yearn for love. With wit and gently biting satire, the poet presents their struggles. Beware: a snicker at these characters is a snicker at yourself. Poet Mia Leonin writes, "Miller's rapturous attention to detail and her deft sense of story conjure a poetic genealogy, swirling and swooning with ancestors, lovers, and earthly delights." Poet H. L. Hix writes in his foreword, "This is a lyric memoir lush with vivid and vivifying particulars the objects of a lifetime." Whether the scene is a French-speaking convent school in Kansas City or an Irish-American woman's further coming of age as a Radcliffe student, wife, mother, poet, or world traveler, Miller's true journey is an interior one marked by a radiant wit and a sensuous appreciation for life itself.

Can You Smell the Rain?

BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Warmer Than Yesterday: New and Selected Poems

EGAN, Desmond

BkMk Press

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