Ice storm damaged historic KC oak tree

Tuesday, March 26, 2002

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The branches of the Westport Oak shaded Indians and fur trappers on the nearby Santa Fe Trail, and supported lynchings in the years before the Civil War. After all that, the tree may have been done in by the ice storm of 2002.

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