Early Kansas City, Missouri Book, Arcadia Publishing Ascend Publishing Rieger & Co

Rieger & Co

Made by Charlie Hustle in KC

Youth sizing

the project attracted national attention to a city still forging its identity

Notebook from Ruff House Art featuring Kansas City landmarks letterpress printed on the cover

Early Kansas City, Missouri Book, Arcadia Publishing Ascend Publishing Rieger & CoBy Leigh Ann Little and John M. Olinskey. 128 pages. In 1821, Franois Chouteau set up a fur trading outpost along the Missouri River, bringing the first settlement of Europeans to what would become Kansas City, named after the Kansa tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the area. At the center of a growing nation, the "City on the Bluff" would build and thrive as a river town, a gateway to the West, and a railroad hub, absorbing the influences of