Author: John W. Leonard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781330344354

Excerpt from The Industries of Kansas City: Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical There is nothing in the aspect of the Kansas City of to-day to recall antiquity or invite retrospect. All here is modern and progressive, and not a trace remains to indicate the fact of history that the busy streets, now vivified with commerce and industry and thoroughly representative of American push and vim, but recently formed an unconsidered portion of a vast and unbroken solitude. Yet all of this advanced development is:but the work of a few years, and the city, as well as the fertile regions of the Great West of which it is the metropolis, has been evolved, within the memory of living men, from obscurity and the wilderness. Prior to the advent of the Caucasian races to this country, and even for centuries before European civilization knew that such a continent as America existed, races lived, contended and died out, to be replaced by their conquerors in all the regions now populated by thrifty communities and embracing the valleys of the Mississippi and the Missouri. But the connexion of these primitive and nomadic tribes with present history is remote, and the interesting details which tradition has transmitted or science discovered in regard to these peoples, their personality, their pursuits and their extinction or migration, belong rather to the domain of ethnological research than to the province of the modern historiographer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.