Business Patterns in the Growth of a Midwestern City: The Kansas City Business Community Before the Civil War

Charles N. Glaab

Business History Review, 1959, vol. 33, issue 2, 156-174

Abstract: The Western traders who made centers like Kansas City their base soon found that urban development offered greater, safer investment opportunities than did trade. Bonanza real estate earnings became a major source of capital for the further development of the West.

Date: 1959
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