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LT Barclay

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20. And was burned to the ground for it before the Civil War. There was a great PBS documentary about the MO and KS border

Reply to chowder66 (Reply #11)

Sun Jun 14, 2026, 10:02 PM

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wars.
Those are the scirmishes that John Wayne's character in True Grit fought in.

But KCMO is pretty dreary in my opinion, we just moved from there. Not much of not there and it seems like a cheap knock off of St. Louis. I really think that the song in the musical "Oklahoma" was actually mocking KCMO when it says "everythings up to date in Kansas City", meaning that the person singing was such a yokel that he though KC was "up to date".

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