The majority of early migrants were men who left families in Mexico. Continuing pressures, such as the U.S. labor shortage of World War I following restrictions on immigrants from Europe and the social and political problems in Mexico through the '20s, led to the move of whole families into the area.

If you were a tourist and did not know Kansas City very well you would be advised to avoid the inner city. That is where the major crime is… homocides and robbery and the such. Between E 63rd st and 18th st and between Troost and Elmwood on the north and south boundaries.

Until 300 A.D., the Hopewell tribe hunted the area around Kansas City. The Mississippi tribe occupied the area between 760 and 1290 A.D. These tribes, which were stationary, were joined by the tribes of Kansa, Osage, Otos and Missouri.