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  2. John Calvin McCoy - Wikipedia

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    A Kansas City Public Library historian said McCoy "single-handedly had the greatest effect on the development of early Kansas City". He founded Westport [3] and is widely regarded as "the father of Kansas City". [1] Pioneer Park is at Westport and Broadway, with a sculpture by Thomas L. Beard of Alexander Majors, John McCoy, and Jim Bridger.

  3. Kansas - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...

  4. History of Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Sod and Stubble: The Story of a Kansas Homestead (U of Nebraska Press, 1972) La Forte, Robert Sherman. Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916 (1974) online; Lee, R. Alton. Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (U of Nebraska Press, 2014) Luebke, Frederick C., ed. Ethnicity on the Great Plains (1982)

  5. DeAndre Hopkins honors late father by wearing his mink coat ...

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    The Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver arrived at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday in the mink jacket he said his father gave to him. "My dad died in 1992, and he left me a couple things.

  6. Meet the $25 billion Hunt family, whose oil wealth created ...

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    The Kansas City Chiefs did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Oil fortune The Hunt wealth runs back to Lamar Sr.’s father, H.L. Hunt, who owned one of the biggest oil deposits in ...

  7. Juan de Padilla - Wikipedia

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    Cross in honor of Juan de Padilla near Lyons, Kansas. In 1950, the Knights of Columbus erected a commemorative cross dedicated to Padilla near Lyons, Kansas. The stone marker reads: This Cross is erected to the memory of Father Padilla, Franciscan Missionary, who stood with Coronado at the erection of the first Christian Cross on these prairies.

  8. Kansas City sports reporter dies in New Orleans ahead of ...

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    A sports reporter died Wednesday while in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl 59, according to the the Kansas City TV station he worked for. Telemundo Kansas City (KGKC) said Thursday that 27-year-old ...

  9. Patrick Mahomes - Wikipedia

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    His father is Pat Mahomes, a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, [12] and his mother is Randi Martin. [13] Mahomes has a younger brother, Jackson, who is a social media influencer. [14] [15] [16] Mahomes's parents divorced in 2006. [13] His half-brother through his father, Graham Walker, plays football at Brown University. [17]