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"SILVER
CITY," A History of the Argentine Community of Kansas City,
Kansas
by Edwin Dale Shutt, II
Copyright
1976 by Edwin Dale Shutt II
Printed in the USA by JOELitho, Kansas City, Kansas
A Thesis presented to the Division of Social Sciences
Emporia Kansas State College
Transcription for online preparation: Patricia Adams, USD 500
All attempts have been made to reproduce the spelling, capitalization and layout of the original book as much as possible. In some cases, "annotations" and "links" have been provided to the original works by the transcriber of the manuscript.
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS |
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| Chapter I | Early Beginnings (.pdf) |
| Chapter II | The Old City of Argentine (.pdf) |
| Chapter III | The Argentine Smelter (.pdf) |
| Chapter IV | Castle on a Hill (.pdf) |
| Chapter V | The Kansas City Structural Steel Company (.pdf) |
| Chapter VI | Tales of Floods and Disasters (.pdf) |
| Chapter VII | History of the Schools (.pdf) |
| Chapter VIII | Mr. Argentine (.pdf) (bio of J C Harmon) |
| Chapter IX | The Argentine Community Today (.pdf) |
| Appendix I | List of Businesses in the Town of Argentine in 1908 (.pdf) |
| Appendix II | Partial List of Buildings Constructed in the Greater Kansas City Area by the Kansas City Structural Steel Company (.pdf) |
| Appendix III | Community Organizations (.pdf) |
| Appendix IV | Partial Listing of Prominent Citizens in the Town's Past and Present (.pdf) |
| Note: Web site URLs have been added to the text by the transcriber of this works. | |
| Additional Links related to "Argentine" | |
USD 500 is grateful to Mr. Edwin Dale Shutt, II, who has graciously granted us permission to use his thesis online at our web site for the benefit of the public viewing this site.
Mr. Shutt is a past president of the Wyandotte County Historical Society and assisted the the KCKs Planning Commission in the narrative, "A Brief History of Wyandotte County".
A copy of Mr. Shutt's book is located at the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library (Main Branch at 625 Minnesota Ave, 913-551-3280; and Argentine Branch at 2800 Metropolitan, 913-722-7400).
Disclaimer: The written historical perspectives online at this web site, and web sites to which links are provided, reflect the view of the author(s)/(creator(s) which are protected under the rights of free speech; and do "not" necessarily reflect the views of the Kansas City, Kansas Board of Education.
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