Kansas City's Parks and Boulevards

by Dona Boley, Patrick Alley, Patrick Alley

Book Overview

A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City "the filthiest in the United States." The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection service, and herding livestock through the city was only recently prohibited. Through the diligent efforts of a handful of recently arrived citizens, political,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467112593
• ISBN13: 9781467112598
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"