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City. Where the Kaw River empties into the Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent...
Citizens. Kansas City, Mo., is the larger and more potent of the twins through no geographical advantage, but because of its citizens. They got out and hustled in the '60s to bring the railroad bridge across the Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built...
Should Senator Curtis ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
...story goes that when a band of Cheyenne savages swooped upon the peaceful Kaw village 1868, small Charles Curtis, aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
...Curtis. (Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas. His great grandmother was the daughter of White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe...