The Life and Times of “Wild Bill” Hickok in the Kansas City Area

Kansas City Public Library - Central Library 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City

Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas City area – a period of his life little known to the public. Years later he would return as a national media star and living legend.

Civic Corruption in Pendergast KC – MIDWEST GENEALOGY CENTER

Mid-Continent Public Library – Midwest Genealogy Center 3440 S. Lee's Summit Road, Independence

The fix was in on many levels throughout the Kansas City government during the Pendergast era. Join Terence O'Malley as he profiles several notorious cases evidencing that democratic processes were nothing more than a mere inconvenience to many of those in power during the 1920s and 1930s.