Do any accounts exist of tornadoes destroying settlements, wagon trains or Indian villages in the Old West? Roger Tignor Independence, Missouri The Old West had tornadoes, same as today. With far fewer towns and people, most went unrecorded. The first written accounts of tornadoes in the Great Plains came from settlements near and along the Missouri River during the mid-1800s. On October 25, 1844, a tornado struck near present-day Mission, Kansas, and into Missouri, damaging or dest


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