Paris of the Plains: Kansas City From Doughboys to Expressways Farmdog Studios This seedy underworld transformed the

This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains

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the Kansas City Monarchs survived the entire thirty-five-year span of black baseball (from 1920 to mid 1950) and were widely regarded as the dominant black professional team

Paris of the Plains: Kansas City From Doughboys to Expressways Farmdog Studios This seedy underworld transformed theBrush up on your Kansas City history with this book by John Simonson. Complete with historic photos, Paris of the Plains is a must have for Kansas City history buffs. 122 pages. Published by The History Press. From the back: "This is a history that smells equally of lilacs and stockyards and bursts with the clamor of gunshots, radio baseball and the distant whistle of a night train."