Engineered Irony: Octave Chanute’s Kansas City Bridge

When the Hannibal Bridge was opened in 1869 it was the first railway to span the Missouri River and helped tranform Kansas City into a major city and rail center, especially giving raise to the West Bottoms’ stockyard industry. To learn more about the importance of the Hannibal Bridge to Kansas City’s history, the Kansas City Public Library has gathered a list of books on the subject.