Ladene Morton

The Waldo Story: the Home of Friendly Merchants (Mo) (The History Press) Ladene Morton

Waldo has taken quite a journey from a wide patch of the Santa Fe Trail to one of Kansas City's preeminent neighborhood centers. Since 1841, it has been a battlefield, railroad hub, mill town, border town, suburb, urban hotspot--and always a place where anything could happen. Meet the Waldonians who carved their character into the land lying between Gregory Boulevard, Eighty-fifth Street, Troost Avenue and State Line Road. Author LaDene Morton follows the community from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and discovers how it has shared in the trials and triumphs of its times.