The Kansas City Museum offers the following links to resources where you can learn more about the people, places, and events featured in Cultural Confluences: Rivers to 1970s, The Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area Gallery. We will update and add resources periodically.
National Park Service: Octave Chanute (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian: Octave Chanute Papers | National Air and Space Museum (si.edu)
KCUR article from May 3, 2016: Meet Octave Chanute, The Sleeper Celebrity Who Made The Hannibal Bridge | KCUR – Kansas City news and NPR
Kansas City Public Library: The Hannibal Bridge: Keeping it “Rail” since 1869 | KC History