2004—The Big Blue |
The next evening, we came to the Missouri River at Kansas City (Missouri on this side, looking west, and Kansas on the other). You can no longer see where the Big Blue River used to flow from behind this Jackson County vantage point into Old Misery. In 1833, though, the “Mormon” Church (then still called officially the Church of Christ: the Latter-day Saints part wouldn’t be revealed for a few more years) owned the ferry over the mouth of the Big Blue. A profitable venture: any traveler who wished to go north on the United States side had to pay the Church’s toll. The other side was still unincorporated Indian territory. |
No visible evidence remains of two very interesting historical and family-historical events that took place here:
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