• “Steaks, Stockyards and Sin: Kansas City’s Meat Potato Past” is a free lecture by Charles Feruzza at 2 p.m. May 18 at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. This story was originally ...

Editor’s note: The Kansas City stockyards opened in 1871. During its 120-year history, it endured a damaging fire in 1917, devastating floods in 1903 and, especially, 1951.

Bill Haw, who bought the Livestock Exchange Building in Kansas City’s West Bottoms area — previously home to the second-largest stockyards in the country — in 1991 and rescued the materials.

Kansas City Public Library’s Jeremy Drouin talked about the origin of the stockyards in Kansas City, their significance, and how it has changed since the stockyards closed. Bell Ringer Assignment ...

The Kansas City stockyards were the place for some creatures to be back in the 1870s, helping the area known as the West Bottoms grow rapidly. More for You. Gayle King, ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A collection of thousands of documents, blueprints and other materials giving a rare glimpse into the history of Kansas City’s stockyards is on display in the city’s ...