To California and Back (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from To California and BackThere was a time when Kansas City was famed almost entirely for its live stock industry, its great packing houses, and its grain market. These en terprises have been growing year by year, but they no longer dominate the commercial life of this metropolis of the Missouri Valley. A great rail way, manufacturing and distributing center, Kansas City holds an important place in the business activ ities of the whole Southwest. Its rapid growth is uninterrupted, the present population, counting that portion over in Kansas, being upwards of Its people are energetic and practical in their civic loyalty. The Kansas border lies just beyond, the entrance to that State leading by the serpentine course of the river of the same name through a wooded landscape to the open prairie.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.