KANSAS CITY – In the book “Out Front Together,” Jim Dalton reveals the price paid – by his family in Ray County, the people of Kansas City, Independence and western Missouri – for race hatred before, during and after the Civil War to the present day. The Dalton family settled next to the Missouri River in 1815 in Hardin at a time and in an area shared by the Osage and millions of buffalo, herds of wild horses, mountain lions, grizzly bears, wolves, deer and elk. “It was an American Serengeti,” promotional information for the book states. Dalton’s family traded for wild horses with the Osage The family trained horses to sell to pioneers traveling across the plains. When Missouri became a slave state in 1821, Ray County became part of an area known as “Little Dixie.” Slave owners brought their slaves and crops to the state. During the Civil War, Dalton’s mother’s family, the Groves, fought under Union Gen. Ulysse...