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Fort de Cavagnial Information. News articles related to early Kansas forts.
St. Joseph News Press, Sept. 14, 1986
"Yankee Doodle Dandy", Gen. Leavenworth's 1832 coat comes home to museum". Relates story of Fort Leavenworth Museum's purchase of coast once owned by Brevet General Henry Leavenworth, for whom the fort is named. The coast had originally been donated to the Washington State Museum by the great-grand nephew of the Generall.
St. Joseph News Press, Sept. 28, 1986
"Long-lost French fort site found" related the discovery of artifacts from land thought to be the location of Fort deCavginial, a French fort constructed in 1744 on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
St. Joseph News Press, October 12, 1886
"Flask not old enough" Letter to the editor questioning the age of a flask artifact found at Fort deCavagnial site.
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