A Better Big Blue Battlefield in Kansas City | Part II

Photo in Kansas City Star of battle of westport veterans gathered in Kansas City

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part series on the restoration of the Big Blue Battlefield in Kansas City, Missouri. In the mid-19th century, overland trail teamsters driving wagons west sometimes followed a branch of the Santa Fe Trail out of Independence, using the shortcut to reach fields where the animals used…

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A Better Big Blue Battlefield | Part I

Among those dedicating new interpretation panels during an October 3 ceremony at the Byram’s Ford Battlefield near Swope Park were (from left) U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Kansas City Mayor Pro Tem and Fifth District Council Member Ryana Parks-Shaw, Kansas City Parks and Recreation Director Chris Cotten, and Fifth District at Large City Council member Darrell Curls.

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on the restoration of the Big Blue Battlefield in Kansas City, Missouri. It was cold for late October in Kansas City. In 1864 Lt. Patrick Henry Minor, then leading an artillery battery against Confederate forces, would die the following March, from what likely had…

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