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This website will featured thousands of scanned documents and other artifacts related to the Border War hostilities before and during the Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas border. These items will be supplemented with dozens of original essays and encyclopedia entries by leading scholars in the field, an interactive map, a comprehensive timeline and a dynamic "relationship browser" which will display connections between people, places, events and objects.

Civil War on the Western Border is a collaboration among 25 historical organizations in the region led by The Kansas City Public Library, with funding provided by the Library Services and Technology Act via the State Library of Missouri and the William T. Kemper Foundation.