Kansas City Regional Histories Bookshelf

American City Planning Institute. Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on City Planning, Kansas City, MO, May 7-9, 1917.

Bench and Bar of St. Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City, and other Missouri cities. St. Louis and Chicago: American Biographical Publishing CO., 1884.

Betz, Carl. A System of Physical Culture: First Book Free Gymnastics. Kansas City Presse, 1888.

Betz, Carl. A System of Physical Culture: Third Book Light Gymnastics. Kansas City Presse, 1887.

Blair, Ed. History of Johnson County Kansas. Lawrence, KS: Standard Publishing Co., 1915.

Board of Public Works of Kansas City (Mo.). Eighth Annual Report for the fiscal year 1896 (April 20, 1896-April 19, 1897). Kansas City: H.S. Millett Publishing Co. 1897

Board of Trade of Kansas City, Missouri. Proceedings of the first Western States Commercial Congress, Kansas City, April 14-17, 1891. Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Havens Printing Company, 1891.

Bureau of Research and Efficiency, Kansas City, Mo. Board of Education. Bulletin. Number 1 (February, 1916).

Case, Theodore S., editor. The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry. Kansas City, MO. Volume 2 (1878-1879);Volume 3 (1879-1880); Volume 4 (1880-1881), Volume 5 (1881-1882), Volume 6 (1882-1883), Volume 7 (1883-1884), Volume 8 (1884-1885), Volume 9 [new series Volume I] (1885)

Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City. Special report on the Kansas City Railways Company submitted to Committee of One Hundred August 4, 1919.

Commerce of Kansas City in 1886.... Kansas City, MO: S Ferd. Howe, 1886.

Cordley, Richard. A History of Lawrence, Kansas from the First Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion. Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal Press, 1895.

Cordley, Richard. Pioneer days in Kansas. Boston: The Pilgrim press, 1903.

Chanute, Octave and Morison, George. The Kansas City Bridge.... New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870.

Cushing, Charles Phelps. A Birthday Book of Kansas City, 1821-1921. Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Co., 1921.

Creel, George and John Slavens. Men who are making Kansas City; a biographical directory. Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly, 1902.

Democratic National Convention Official Souvenir Guide, Kansas City, USA, July 4, 1900. Kansas City, MO: Lectman Printing Co., 1900.

Elmer, Manuel C. Armourdale: a city within a city. (Bulletin of the University of Kansas Volume 20#12 (June 15, 1919)). Topeka, KS: Kansas State Printing Plant

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The Monthly Bulletin Covering Conditions in the Tenth Federal Reserve District. Volumes 5#5 (May 25, 1920)-5#7 (July 25, 1920).

Green, Charles Ransley. Early Days in Kansas: Along the Santa Fe Council City 1854-5, Superior 1856, and Burlingame 1856-64. Olathe, KS: C.R. Green’s Historical Publications, 1913.

Green, Charles Ransley. Sac and Fox Indians in Kansas: Mokohoko's stubbornness…. Olathe, KS: C.R. Green’s Historical Publications, 1914.

Greenwood, James Mickleborough and Marbut, Curtis Fletcher. Dodge's geography of Missouri. New York: Rand, McNally, 1900.

Griffith, William. The History of Kansas City. Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1900.

Hall, Jesse A. and Hand, LeRoy T. History of Leavenworth County Kansas. Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Company, 1921.

Harris, Harry. Birds of the Kansas City Region‎. Kansas City, MO: Reprinted from the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, MO, 1919.

Heckman, William L. Steamboating: sixty-five years on Missouri's rivers. Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Co., 1950.

History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri.... Saint Louis, MO: National Historical Company, 1885.

History of Jackson County, Missouri: containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc. … Kansas City, MO: Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams and Co., 1881.

Hood, Grant. Modern Methods in Horology. Kansas City: Kansas City Jeweler and Optician, 1904.

Johnson, Gertrude Tacy. Domestic Science: a text in cooking and syllabus in sewing. Prepared for use in the Kansas City elementary schools.... Kansas City: Burton Pub. Co., 1913.

Kansas City Bar Association. Kansas City Bar Monthly. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Bar Association. Volume 2#6 (April 1897), Volume 8#2 (November 1903) and #10 (September 1904), Volume 9#1 (October 1904) thru #4 (January 1905), Volume 11#2 (March 1909).

Kansas City Medical Record: a monthly journal of medicine and surgery. Kansas City, MO. Volume 6#7 (July 1889), Volume 6#11 (November 1889, Volume 7#1 (January 1890), Volume 7#4 (April 1890), Volume 7#11 (November 1890), Volume 7#12 (December 1890), Volume 26#1 (January 1909), Volume 26#2 (February 1909), Volume 26#3 (March 1909), Volume 26#5 (May 1909), Volume 26#6 (June 1909), Volume 26#7 (July 1909), Volume 26#8 (August 1909), Volume 26#9 (September 1909), Volume 26#11 (November 1909), Volume 27#1 (January 1910), Volume 27#2 (February 1910).

Kansas City im 19 Jahrhundert [Kansas City in the 19^th century]. Cleveland, OH: German-American Biographical Publishing Company, 1900. [Note: German language publication].

Kansas City Public Library Quarterly. Volumes 4#1 (January 1904)-6#4 (October 1906); Volumes 7#1 (January 1907)-10#2 (April 1910).

Kansas City Public Service Company. Railwayan. Volumes 4#1 (October 1920)-5#12 (September 1922).

Kansas City Scientist: the official organ of the Kansas City Academy of Science Kansas City, MO. Volume 5#11 (November 1891).

Kansas City Star. William Rockhill Nelson: the story of a man , a newspaper, and a city. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915.

Kansas City Veterinary College. Quarterly Bulletin. Issues 38 (December 1912); 39 (March 1913); 41 (September 1913); 43(March 1914); 48(June 1915); 50(December 1915)-51(March 1916); 54(December 1916).

Lanphear, Emory. Kansas City Medical Index. Kansas City, MO: Volume 10#109 (January 1889). [See also Punton, John.]

Martin, Asa Earl. Our Negro Population: a sociological study of the Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing CO., 1913.

McEwen and Dillenback. Kansas City in 1879: Sketches of the trade, manufactures and progress of the city…. Kansas City, MO: Ramsey, Millett and Hudson, 1879.

Medical Forum: A monthly journal devoted to the interests of the medical profession. Volume 4#3 (March 1907). [Kansas City: William E. Cramer, publisher]

Meech, Stuart Putnam. Kansas City Power and Light Company. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922.

Miller, William H. The History of Kansas City. Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Miller, 1881. [Note that this work is included in its entirety in the 1881 History of Jackson County, Missouri.]

Miller, William H. Proceedings of the Missouri River Improvement Convention held at Kansas City, MO December 15-16, 1891. Kansas City, MO: Lawton and Burnap, 1891.

Morgan, Perl Wilbur. History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and its people. Chicago, IL: The Lewis publishing company, 1911. Volume I and Volume II.

North, Charles E. Report of milk survey and ordinance, Kansas City, Missouri: authorized by a joint and concurrent resolution of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Common Council. July 1921.

Noyes, Isaac Pitman. Tornadoes: Prophecy of the Weather. Kansas City Review Press, 1880 [Reprinted from the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, August and September 1880].

Paxton, William McClung. Annals of Platte County, Missouri, from its exploration down to June 1, 1897 … Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1897.

Political history of Jackson County: Biographical sketches of men who have helped to make it. Kansas City, MO: Marshall and Morrison, 1902.

Portrait and Biographical Record of Leavenworth, Douglas and Franklin Counties, Kansas…. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1899.

Powell, Cuthbert. Twenty years of Kansas City's live stock trade and traders. Kansas City: Pearl Printing Co. 1893.

Proceedings of the Third National Conservation Congress at Kansas City, Missouri, September 25, 26, and 27, 1911. Kansas City, MO: National Conservation Congress, 1912.

Punton, John. Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet. Kansas City, MO: Volume 33#1 (January 1910) thru Volume 33#12 (December 1910). [November issue misnumbered. Journal consolidated with the Medical Herald of St. Joseph in December of 1910.] [See also Lanphear, Emory.]

Research Bureau of the Board of Public Welfare. Social Prospectus of Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City, MO: Board of Public Welfare, 1913.

Russell, Ross. Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.

Schauffler, E.W., editor. Kansas City Medical Journal. Kansas City, MO: Volume 2#2 (April 1872), Volume 2#3 (June 1872), Volume 2#4 (August 1872), Volume 2#5 (October 1872), Volume 3#1 (February 1873), Volume 3#2 (April 1873), Volume 3#5 (October 1873), Volume 3#6 (December 1873), Volume 4#10 (October 1874), Volume 4#11 (November 1874), Volume 5#1 (February 1875), Volume 5#2 (April 1875), Volume 5#3 (June 1875).

Seelye, Benjamin B., editor. A brief history of the First Congregational Church, Kansas City, Mo., 1866-1909: comprising the story of the old First Congregational Church of the city of Kansas, 1866-1905 and of the Clyde Congregational Church of Kansas City, Mo., 1905-1909….  \ Kansas City: Hailman Printing Co, 1909.

Shirling, Albert E. Birds of Swope park in the heart of America, Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City: McIndoo Publishing Co, 1920.

Smith, R.F. Smith's guide to the Southwest, along the line of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railway…. Sedalia, MO: R.F. Smith, 1871.

Spalding, C.C. Annals of the City of Kansas: embracing full details of the trade and commerce of the Great Western Plains.... Kansas City, MO: Van Horn and Abeel's Printing House, 1858.

Todd, David H. Recent discoveries of fossils in Kansas City, Missouri. The Literary companion, March 1890.

Trickett C.W. The Cleansing of a Large City: The Beneficial Results Flowing from the Enforcement of the Prohibitory Law in Kansas City, Kas., Speech of Assistant Attorney General C.W. Trickett at Winfield Kansas Chautauqua, July 26, 1907. Topeka: Kansas State Temperance Union, 1907.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Descriptions and elevations of bench marks on the Missouri River: Elevations referred to St. Louis city directrix. United States Engineers Office, Kansas City MO. [Bulletin #3]. Washington: GPO, 1912.

Webber, A.L. History and Directory of Cass County, Missouri. Harrisonville, MO: Cass County Leader, 1908

White, John Barber. The Missouri Merchant One Hundred Years Ago. Columbia, MO: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1919.

Whitney, Carrie Westlake. Kansas City, Missouri; its history and its people 1808-1908. Chicago, IL: The S.J. Clarke publishing Company, 1908. Volume I and Volume II and Volume III.