Thanks to the reading aloud of Lahoma's letter, he had learned of Gledware's presence in the city which he had known years before as Westport Landing.

Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company was a department store in Downtown Kansas City that traced its history nearly to the city's origins as Westport Landing.

The area outside of Westport Landing was renamed the "Town of Kansas," after the local Kanza Native Americans, in 1839.

Then in 1834, McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri River to serve as a landing point for West Port.

Those murals depict the pioneers' departure from Westport Landing and their journey along the Santa Fe Trail.

California Road - Branch of the Oregon Trail to Lawrence, Kansas from Westport Landing.

Great Flood of 1844 - This was the biggest flood of the three in terms of cubic feet/second discharge at Westport Landing in Kansas City.

McCoy got supplies from boats that docked at a rocky outcropping on the river at what is Main Street and the river; the area was called "Westport Landing."

The road connecting Westport with the trading post and Westport Landing followed Broadway.

He established a dock at a rocky point in the river between Main and Grand Street, which came to be called Westport Landing.