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Statehood: Containing four distinct physiographical regions including the Mississippi Alluvial Plains Lowland in its bootheel-shaped southeastern section, a portion of the Interior Plains Central Lowland in its northern region, the Ozark Plateau in most of its southern section, and a portion of the Western Plains in its southwestern region, the Missouri Territory was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became the 24th State on August 10, 1821. Name: Possessing the Sioux Indian name "missouris" meaning "wooden canoe people," "he of the big canoe," or "river of the big canoes," and bordered by Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee, Missouri's name, often taken to mean "muddy water," according to the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology translates into "town of the large canoes," Native Americans: Along with the Prehistoric Mississippian Moundbuilders other Native American Indian tribes that resided in the territory that became the State of Missouri included the Caddo, the Dakota, the Fox, the Illinois, the Iowa, the Kickapoo, the Missouri, the Omaha, the Osage, the Deleware, the Oto, the Sauk, the Shawnee, the Chickasaw, the Quapaw, the Hopewell, the Piakeshaw, the Blackfoot, the Chippawa, the Sioux, the Crow, the Cheyenne, the Shoshone, the Arapaho, the Winnebago, the Sac, the Potawatomi, the Cherokee, the Chickamauga, the Saponi, the Miami, the Wea, and the Peoria. History: The earliest known recorded use of the name "Missouri" was found on a 1673 map drawn by the French Jesuit Missionary Explorer Jacques Marquette. The first immigrant villages established in the territory that became the State of Missouri were Fort de Chartres, Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, and Fort Orleans, and the first European settlement in the territory, created in 1750, was Ste. Genevieve. Spain acquired the Missouri Territory as part of Louisiana under the 1762 Treaty of Fountainebleau following Britian's defeat of France in the Seven Years War, and ceded it back to France in 1800, who realized they could not protect the territory from the United States and sold it as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Part of the Western Frontier, and a major cattle and agricultural region, Missouri was the home of several War of 1812 military forts including Fort Bellefontaine, Fort Osage, and Fort Cap au Gris. Missouri was also the site of many battles from that conflict including the May 24, 1815 Battle of the Sink Hole involving the Missouri Rangers and Sauk Indians led by Chief Black Hawk. The March 28, 1857 Platte Purchase added Atchison County, Andrew County, Buchanan County, Nodaway County, Platte County, and Holt County to Missouri's southern border. During the California Gold Rush Independence, Saint Louis, Saint Joseph, and Westport became important wagon train departure points for trips that took as long as six months to complete, making Missouri the "Gateway to the West," which has been commemorated by the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis. Important agricultural products of the State of Missouri have included tobacco, hemp, hogs, corn, sorgham, hay, rice, horses, turkeys, wine, and a famous breed of mules. The May 10, 1861 Camp Jackson Affair, where Union forces killed twenty-eight citizens of Saint Louis, drew Missouri into the Civil War, and divided the State between both sides, with Saint Louis becoming a major supply base for the Union Army. Missouri was the third largest area of conflict during the Civil War with battles faught at Carthage, Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pilot Knob, Saint Louis, Glasgow, Little Blue, Byram's Ford, Independence, and Westport, as well as widespread guerilla warfare by such well known organizations as the Quantrill's Raiders, the Bloody Bill Anderson Gang, Jesse James, and the Bald Knobbers. Major companies that originated in the State of Missouri include Hallmark Cards, the A.P. Green Fire Brick Company, the Booth Farms and Hatchery, that led to Clinton becoming famous as the "Baby Chick Capitol of the World," the Anheuser and Company Bavarian Brewery, Anheuser Busch, the manufacturer of Budweiser, the most popular brand of beer in the world, the Pierce Petroleum Company, the Bass Pro Shops Sporting Goods Company, the Missouri Fur Company, and live Country Music performances in Branson. Missouri has experienced several natural disasters including the December 16, 1811 New Madrid Earthquakes, the worst in United States history, the 1844 Great Flood of the Missouri and Upper Mississippi Rivers, severe blizzards, and destructive tornados. Approximately ninety percent of the non-recycled lead supply of the United States is mined in Missouri, with barite, zinc, silver, timber, and limestone also heavily produced. Since 1904, with the exceptions of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results in the US Presidential Elections have accurately predicted the next President of the United States. Missouri is known as a Border State between Southern and Midwestern cultures, and between the Eastern and Western United States, because Saint Louis has long been regarded as the "westernmost Eastern City," and Kansas City as the "easternmost Western City," of the Country. Missouri Compromise: Agreed to in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery sectors of the United States Congress regarding slavery in the Western Territories the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of the 36'30 North Parallel except in Missouri. The Missouri Compromise also allowed Maine to enter the Union as a Free State, thereby maintaining the balance of power between the two factions of the Country. George Washington Carver National Monument: Founded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and located two miles west of Diamond, the first National Monument dedicated to an African-American preserves the 1881 Moses Carver House, the Carver Family Cemetary, a nature trail, a museum, two hundred and ten acres of woodlands and prairies, an interactive area, the boyhood home, and a statue of the famous Scientist, Educator, Botanist, and Inventor George Washington Carver as a young boy. Harry S. Truman National Historic Site: The Harry S. Truman National Historic Site preserves the Truman Family Farm in Grandview, the long time home of the thirty-third President of the United States in Independence, the homes of Truman's two brothers, favorite Aunt, and several cousins, the Truman Presidential Library, the Harry S. Truman Historic District, a smokehouse, the Grandview Post Office Truman turned into a garage, and other buildings. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial: Located in Saint Louis, and the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, a ninety-one acre park along the Mississippi River, possesses the Old Courthouse where the Dred Scott Slavery Case was debated, the Gateway Arch, and the Museum of Westward Expansion. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail: The approximately 3700 mile long Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail from Wood River, Illinois to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon commemorates the 1804 to 1806 expedition that explored the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase through the States of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Oregon National Historic Trail: Traveling over more than two thousand miles of rough terrain from Independence, Missouri through Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon, with extensions into Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, and Washington, the historic wagon train route known as the Oregon National Historic Trail is the oldest Northern United States trail and played a major developmental role in the fur trade of the early 1800s. Ozark National Scenic Riverways: Protecting the Jacks Fork River and the Current River, two of America's clearest rivers, the Ozark National Scenic Riverways offer horseback riding, hiking, fishing, sightseeing, and canoeing opportunities to more than one million visitors a year, and are the home of some of the largest springs in the United States including the Montauk Springs, Cave Spring, Welch Spring, Round Spring, Ebb and Flow Spring, Pulltite Spring, Fire Hydrant Spring, and Blue Spring. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways also contain more than three hundred caves including the Devil's Well Sink, Jam-Up Cave, and the Round Spring Caverns. Pony Express National Historic Trail: Famous for the advertisement "Wanted: young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred," and headquartered at the Patee House in St. Joseph, Missouri, with mail carried by horseback riders who could not weigh more than 125 pounds, riding up to 75 miles a day between 157 relay stations spread approximately ten miles apart, the Pony Express, begun by the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Mail Delivery Service, and operated from April 3, 1860 to October 1861, became the most direct means of communications between the Eastern and Western portions of the United States, with mail taking about ten days to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Santa Fe National Historic Trail: Covering more than twelve hundred miles of deserts, plains, and mountains, with its eastern end in Franklin, Missouri, the Santa Fe Trail was a major transportation, commercial, military, and international trade route through the Comanche and Apache Indian Territories that helped open up the southwestern United States and features such notable historic locations as the Arrow Rock Ferry Landing, the Old Franklin town site where the first travelers on the Santa Fe Trail began their journeys, the Boone's Lick State Historic Site where Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone developed the salt business that shipped salt used to tan hides and preserve meat up the Missouri River, the Santa Fe Spring that supplied water to the early travelers along the Santa Fe Trail, the Arrow Rock Tavern, the oldest continuously operated restaurant west of the Mississippi River, Fort Osage, the westernmost fur trading factory in the United States fur factory system, the extinct town of Wayne City, the National Frontier Trails Museum dedicated to the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails, and the New Santa Fe Cemetary Trail Ruts on the boundary of the Indian Territory on Missouri's western edge made as wagon trains traveled the Trail. Trail of Tears National Historic Trail: Passing through Cape Girardeau County the Missouri section of the Trail of Tears, the result of the 1830 President Andrew Jackson policy to forcibly remove approximately 16,000 members of five tribes of Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole Indians to Oklahoma, features the Arcadia Valley Campground at Pilot Knob where fourteen hundred Cherokees camped along the Trail, the Laughing Park field at Roubidoux Spring, the Maramec Spring Park and Mussey Iron Works, the first successful ironworks plant west of the Mississippi River, the 1247-acre Star City Ranch and Trail segment, the Wire Road used to string telegraph lines, Civil War troop movements, and the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach route, the Trail of Tears State Park near Jackson, where nine of the thirteen groups of Cherokees removed from their lands crossed the Mississippi River in the severe Winter conditions of 1838-1839, and the burial site of Nancy Bushyhead Hildebrand whose memorial marks the lost lives of all the Cherokees that died along the Trail, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site: Known as White Haven, and containing the childhood home of Julia Dent Grant, as well as the plantation site of the Grant Estate, including the main house, slave quarters, and several outbuildings, the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Grantwood Village celebrates the military career, life, and Presidency of the 18th President of the United States. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield: Faught August 10, 1861 the Battle of Wilson's Creek, the first major engagement of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River, kept Missouri in the Union and features the Wilson's Creek Civil War Museum, a five mile long trail loop, the 1852 Ray House, a Confederate Field Hospital, and Bloody Hill. Mark Twain National Forest: Containing approximately one and a half million acres, in twenty-nine counties, the Mark Twain National Forest features the Glade Top Trail National Scenic Byway, Greer Spring, the largest spring on National Forest property, the Bell Mountain Wilderness with the highest mountain in the Saint Francois Mountain Range, the Rockpile Mountain Wilderness with a name taken from a circle of granite rock built by Prehistoric man, the Piney Creek Wilderness east of Cassville, the Hercules-Glades Wilderness, the oldest wilderness area in Missouri, with some of the most scenic country in the Midwestern part of the United States, the Paddy Creek Wilderness with rugged and challenging hiking trails, and the Irish Wilderness with Fiddler Spring and overlooks of the Eleven Point River. State Parks: Missouri is the home of eighty-three State Parks and Historic Sites including the Arrow Rock State Historic Site that contains historic homes, the 1834 Huston Tavern restaurant, and an open air museum, the Babler State Park in Wildwood with popular hiking trails, the Sam A. Baker State Park in the Saint Francois Mountains of the Ozarks, the Battle of Athens State Historic Site on the Des Moines River that commemorates the most northerly faught Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River, and the only one contested on the Iowa border, the Battle of Carthage State Historic Site near Joplin, won by the Confederate Missouri State Guard, that helped encourage recruitment for Southern regiments, the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site, where the Battle of Hemp Bales consolidated Confederate control of the Missouri Valley, and also the site of the Second Battle of Lexington, another Confederate victory during the Missouri Expedition, the Bennett Spring State Park a popular flyfishing location near Lebanon, the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site that preserves the Kansas City home of the famous Muralist and Leader of the Regionalist Art Movement, the Big Lake State Park, Missouri's largest oxbow lake, the Big Oak Tree State Park in East Prairie that possesses some of the largest trees on United States farmland, the Big Sugar Creek State Park that protects the Elk River water system in the southwestern part of Missouri, the Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in Burfordville with the oldest Covered Bridge in the State, that predates the Civil War, the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site at Ash Grove that preserves the home of Daniel Boone's youngest son, the Boone's Lick State Historic Site at Arrow Rock that protects the spring that provided water for Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone's famous salt mill, the Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site north of Sadalia that possesses the 1890 Stoneyridge Farm, the Castlewood State Park a popular trail hiking location on the Meramec River, the Clark's Hill/Norton State Historic Site near Jefferson City that possesses the Lewis and Clark campsite, the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site at Higginsville that protects the Confederate Soldiers Home of Missouri, the Crowder State Park near Trenton that features large-mouth bass fishing on Crowder Lake, the Cuivre River State Park east of Troy with ten popular hiking trails, the Current River State Park north of Eminence with many buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, the Deutschheim State Historic Site in Hermann with many mid-eighteen hundreds German immigrant buildings, the Dillard Mill State Historic Site in Crawford County, the Governor Daniel Dunklin's Grave State Historic Site in Herculaneum, the Elephant Rocks State Park in the Saint Francois Mountains with Precambrian Period granite that resembles a train of pink circus elephants, the Felix Valle House State Historic Site in Ste. Genevieve that preserves an 1818 authentically stocked mercantile store, the Finger Lakes State Park at Columbia that features reclaimed strip mined land from the Mark Twain Coal Mine and more than seventy miles of off-road, motorcycle, ATV, and motocross trails, the First Missouri State Capitol Complex Historic Site in St. Charles, the Fort Davidson State Historic Site where the September 27, 1864 Battle of Fort Davidson, the opening conflict of Price's Missouri Raid occurred, the General John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site in LaClede that protects the home of the Leader of the American Expeditionary Forces of World War One, the Graham Cave State Park in Montgomery County that preserves a historically important Pre-Columbian Era archaeological site, the Grand Gulf State Park in Thayer with a forked canyon from a Prehistoric cave system and the largest natural bridge in Missouri, the Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton with many sinkholes, caves, and bluffs overlooking the Lake of the Ozarks, the Harry S. Truman Birthplace State Historic Site in Lamar, the Harry S. Truman State Park, dam, and largest man-made lake in the State of Missouri, found between Warsaw and Clinton on the Osage River, the Hawn State Park in Ste. Genevieve with popular State-Designated Natural Areas including the LaMotte Sandstone Barrens, Pickle Creek, Orchid Valley, and Botkin's Pine Woods, the Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site in New Madrid, the Iliniwek Village State Historic Site in Clark County, the Jefferson Landing State Historic Site in Jefferson City featuring the Christopher Maus House, the Lohman's Landing Building, and the Union Hotel, the Jewell Cemetary State Historic Site in Columbia, the Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park on the East Fork Black River in the St. Francois Mountains with many cascades and a natural water park, the Edward and Pat Jones-Confluence Point State Park where the Missouri River and the Mississippi River meet north of the Saint Louis Arch, and where the Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, the Katy Trails State Park along the Missouri River, one of the longest Rails-to-Trails right-of-ways in the United States, the Knob Noster State Park in Johnson County with reclaimed land that began as the Montserrat National Recreational Demonstration Area, the Lake of the Ozarks State Park, the largest State Park in Missouri, featuring more than eighty-five miles of shoreline, twelve hiking trails, the Ozark Caverns, and Anderson Hollow Cove, popularly known as Party Cove, that according to the New York Times newspaper, is the "oldest established permanent floating bacchanal festival in the Country," the Lake Wappapello State Park in Wayne County, the Lewis and Clark State Park in Buchanan County, the Locust Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site in Linn County, the Long Branch State Park in Macon County, the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site and Mark Twain State Park in Monroe County, the Mastodon State Historic Archaeological and Paleontological Site in Imperial with the famous Kimmswick Bone Bed and one of the most extensive Pleistocene Ice Age deposits in the United States, the Meramec State Park in Sullivan with hardwood forests, woodland glades, and more than forty caves, the Missouri Mines State Historic Site in Park Hills with a mining and geological history museum featuring the Missouri Lead Belt Mining District, the Missouri State Capitol Complex and Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City, the Montauk State Park in Salem with famous trout fishing on the Current River headwaters, the Morris State Park in Dunklin County, the Onondaga Cave State Park in Leasburg, the Osage Village State Historic Site in Vernon County that commemorates the Osage Indian Nation, the Pershing State Park in Linn County, the Pomme de Terre State Park in Hickory County, the Prairie State Park in the Central Forest-Grasslands Transition Ecoregion of the Great Plains, the Roaring River State Park in Barry County, the Robertsville State Park in Franklin County, the Rock Bridge Memorial State Park south of Columbia, the Route 66 State Park in the former town of Times Beach, the St. Francois State Park with the Pike Run Hills and Coonville Natural Area, the St. Joe State Park in Park Hills with the historic St. Joe Minerals mill building and a mining museum on the St. Francois Mountain flanks, the Sandy Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site in Saline County, the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in Saint Louis, the Stockton State Park, on a peninsula between the Big and Little Sac arms of Stockton Lake in Cedar County, with ancient burial mounds, campsites, and villages from several Prehistoric cultures, the Table Rock State Park in Stone and Taney Counties, the Taum Sauk Mountain State Park with the highest elevation point in Missouri and the Mina Sauk Falls, the State's tallest waterfall, the Thousand Hills State Park west of Kirksville with Native American Indian petroglyphs and the home of the Baker/McConnell Kids Fishing Tournament, the Towosahgy State Historic Site with an extensive Mississippian Mound system that preserves a Woodland Period Baytown Culture, the Trail of Tears State Park in Cape Girardeau County commemorating the Cherokee Indians that died along the Trail of Tears during their forced relocation to Oklahoma, the Union Covered Bridge State Historic Site in Monroe County that protects the 1871-built bridge across the Elk Fork of the Salt River, the Van Meter State Park in Saline County, in the Pinnacles bottomland area, with many ancient Native American Indian burial mounds, the Wakonda State Park in Lewis County, the Wallace State Park in Clinton County, the Washington State Park, with Native American Indian rock carvings, in central-eastern Missouri, the Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site in Lawson that possesses the buildings, machinery, and business records of the 1859-built Watkins Wool Mill, the Weston Bend State Park in Platte County, and the Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry in the Pioneer Forest with hiking trails, two wilderness areas, and four hundred year old trees. State Forests: Missouri contains many State Forests including the Beal State Forest, the Blair Creek State Forest, the Bloom Creek State Forest, the Cardareva State Forest, the Carrs Creek State Forest, the Clow State Forest, the Hartshorn State Forest, the Indian Creek State Forest, the Mule Mountain State Forest, the Powder Mill State Forest, and the Rocky Creek State Forest in Shannon County, the Bear Creek State Forest, the Coffin State Forest, the Flatwoods Church State Forest, and the Osage Fork State Forest in Laclede County, the Bluffwoods State Forest in Buchanan County, the Bozarth State Forest, the Deer Run State Forest, the Dickins Valley State Forest, the Graves Mountain State Forest, the Logan Creek State Forest, the Paint Rock State Forest, the Riverside State Forest, and the Webb Creek State Forest in Reynolds County, the Castor River State Forest and the Club Creek State Forest in Bollinger County, the Cedar Grove State Forest and the Indian Trail State Forest in Dent County, the Coldwater State Forest and the Poplar Bluff State Forest in Wayne County, the Elmslie Memorial State Forest in Marion County, the Eva Neely Davis Memorial State Forest in Andrew County, the Fourche Creek State Forest in Ripley County, the Grand Trace State Forest in Harrison County, the Hackler Ford State Forest and the Lead Mine State Forest in Dallas County, the Huckleberry Ridge State Forest in McDonald County, the Fiery Fork State Forest in Camden County, the Lester R. Davis Memorial State Forest in Barton County, the Daniel Boone Memorial State Forest and the Little Lost Creek State Forest in Warren County, the Lone Star Tract State Forest in Pulaski County, the Poosey State Forest in Livingston County, the Painted Rock State Forest in Osage County, the Ruth and Paul Hennings State Forest in Taney County, the Sugar Creek State Forest in Adair County, the White River State Forest in Howell County, and the Wilhelmina State Forest in Dunklin County. Lakes: The largest lakes in the State of Missouri include Bull Shoals Lake in the Ozark Mountains that impounds the White River with one of the largest concrete dams in the United States, and contains hundreds of miles of coves and nineteen parks around its shorelines, the Lake of the Ozarks, the largest reservoir on the Osage River, that possesses more than 1150 miles of shorelines, Fellow Lake, the water source for the city of Springfield and one of the State's premiere Muskie fishing locations, Lake Taneycomo on the White River in the Ozark Mountains, a popular tourist destination for visitors to Branson and Rockaway Beach, the Mark Twain Lake on the Salt River southwest of Hannibal, with the town of Florida, the Author's birthplace, next to the lake, McDaniel Lake on the Little Sac River containing several varities of fish, Pomme de Terre Lake north of Springfield with a French name meaning "earth apple," a type of potato, and more than one hundred and thirteen miles of shorelines, the five thousand acre Smithville Lake on the Platte River containing more than one hundred and seventy-five miles of shorelines, the "V"-shaped Stockton Lake that is surrounded by tree-covered hills and ranked among the Top Ten lakes in the United States for sailing, Table Rock Lake on the White River in the Ozark Mountains, a popular Branson area tourist destination, the Truman Reservoir, Missouri's largest man-made lake, Lake Springfield in Greene County, Norfolk Lake in the Ozark Mountains with secluded coves and popular sailing opportunities, Weatherby Lake near Kansas City, and Wappapello Lake in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains that was named after the Shawnee Indian Chief Wappepilese. Rivers: Major rivers located in the State of Missouri include the Missouri River, the Mississippi River, the Arkansas River, the Neosho River, the Elk River, the Flat Branch River, the Buffalo River, the Table Rock River, the Bass River, the Spring River, the Jacks Fork River, the Current River, the Eleven Point River, the White River, the Black River, the Cache River, the James River, the North Fork River, the Roaring River, the Bennetts River, the Little North Fork White River, the Kings River, the Little Black River, the St. Francis River, the Little River, the Castor River, the Little St. Francis River, the Whitewater River, the Old River, the Meramec River, the Bourbeuse River, the Big River, the Little Bourbeuse River, the Little Meramec River, the River des Peres, the River aux Vases, the Loutre River, the Gasconade River, the Osage Fork River, the Maries River, the Niangua River, the South Grand River, the Little Maries River, the Little Niangua River, the Pomme de Terre River, the Sac River, the Little Pomme de Terre River, the Little Sac River, the North Dry Sac River, the Little Osage River, the South Dry Sac River, the Marmaton River, the Green River, the Moreau River, the Marais des Cygnes River, the Lamine River, the Blackwater River, the Little Chariton River, the Grand River, the Thompson River, the Weldon River, the Crooked River, the Fishing River, the Blue River, the Little Blue River, the Platte River, the Little Platte River, the Nodaway River, the One Hundred and Two River, the Big Tarkio River, the Nishnabotna River, the Cuivre River, the South River, the Salt River, the North River, the North Fabius River, the Wyaconda River, the Fabius River, the Little Wyaconda River, the Middle Fabius River, the Fox River, the South Fabius River, the Little Fox River, the Des Moines River, and the Big Piney River. Mountains: Major mountains found in the State of Missouri include Bell Mountain in the Potosi-Fredericktown region of the Mark Twain National Forest, the Ouachita Mountains, the Saint Francois Mountain Range featuring the Boston Mountains, Taum Sauk Mountain, Missouri's highest elevation point at 1772 feet tall, Pilot Knob Mountain, Hughes Mountain, Proffit Mountain, Goggin Mountain, Lead Hill Mountain, Clark Mountain, the highest isolated elevation point in the State at 1450 feet tall, and Wildcat Mountain in Iron County. Wildernesses: Missouri contains eight wilderness areas including the Bell Mountain Wilderness that protects an old-growth oak-hickory forest, grassy glades, granite outcroppings, a variety of plant species, several gorges, and wildlife including white-tailed deer, turkeys, Pileated Woodpeckers, woodthrush, and ovenbirds, the Devil's Backbone Wilderness, supported by a long narrow ridge down its center, that is full of hickory, oak, shortleaf pine, red maple, and sassafras trees, several hollows, Blue Spring, Amber Spring, McGarr Spring, the North Fork Recreation Area, the McGarr Ridge Trail, the Collins Ridge Trail, deer, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, eagles, hawks, vultures, owls, skunks, squirrels, and snakes, the Hercules-Glades Wilderness with some of the most panaramic views of Missouri, forested knobs, steep rocky hills, several hollows, open grasslands, dogwoods, maples, eastern red cedars, roadrunners, quail, collared lizards, Pilot Knob, and Coy Bald, the Irish Wilderness, the State's largest wilderness area, with more than 16,277 acres of sinkholes, the Whites Creek Cave, overlooks of the Eleven Point National Scenic River, shortleaf pines, dogwoods, persimmons, Bliss Springs, Fiddler Spring, and a variety of Ozark wildlife, the Mingo Wilderness that possesses bottomland hardwood, tupelo, and Giant Cypress trees, Bald Eagles, Mississippi Flyway migrating waterfowl, otters, beavers, rolling hills, and Monoply Marsh, the Piney Creek Wilderness with wild growing strawberries and tomatoes, four hundred foot tall ridges, many hollows, several springs, Table Rock Lake, sycamore, elm, ash, and buckeye trees, Great Blue Herons, armadillos, and the Pineview Tower Trail, the Rockpile Mountain Wilderness in the St. Francois Mountains, Missouri's smallest wilderness area, featuring an ancient circular pile of granite rocks built by Prehistoric peoples, broken ridges, butternut, basswood, and Kentucky Coffee trees, five man-made ponds, backcountry exploring, and the Little Grass Mountain Trail, and the Paddy Creek Wilderness with a mixed hardwood forest, steep cliffs, many caves, distinctive rock formations, the Big Piney Trail, and the Roby Lake Recreation Area. Ozarks: Covering approximately 47,000 square miles, and known as the Ozarks Mountain Country, the Ozark Mountains, and the Ozark Plateau, the Ozarks are a dissected plateau highlands region of the central portion of the United States that cover much of southern Missouri, part of northern Arkansas, extend into eastern Oklahoma, and the extreme section of southeastern Kansas, form a broad dome around the Saint Francois Mountain Range, and feature such well known areas as the Ozark Mountain Forests, the Springfield Plateau, the Salem Plateau, the Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Lake, the Buffalo National River, the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, the Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River, the Ozark Highlands Trail, the Ozark Trail, the Old Ozark Auto Trail, the Green Country rolling hills, the Carthage Underground marble quarries, the 1863-built USS Ozark Warship, the USS Arkansas Warship, and the USS Ozark World War Two Vehicle Landing Ship. Attractions: Popular Attractions found in the State of Missouri consists of the many Country Music, Dinner, and Variety Shows and theater venues Branson is world famous for including The Haygoods, the Dutton Family, the Hughes Brothers, the Grand Country Music Hall, the Liverpool Legends Ultimate Beatles Experience, Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner Show, the Moe Bandy Theater, the Jim Stafford Theatre, Tony Roi's Elvis Experience, the Andy Williams Moon River Theater, the Baldknobbers Jamboree Show, the Mickey Gilley Theatre, the Motown Downtown Show, the Americana Theater, and the Shoji Tabuchi Theatre, other popular Attractions found in Missouri include the Buffalo River Zip Lines, the Hollywood Wax Museum, the Branson Scenic Railway, the Dinosaur Museum, the Branson Exhibition Center, the Wilderness Chapel, the Indian Creek Caverns, the Mud Cave, the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum, the Butterfly Palace, Moonshine Beach, the Table Rock Dam, the White Water Park, the Silver Dollar City Theme Park, the World's Largest Toy Museum, the Veterans Memorial Museum of Branson, the Bonniebrook Historical Society and Kewpie Museum, the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery, nationally popular bass fishing on Table Rock Lake, the Marvel Cave, the Ride the Ducks Sightseeing Tour, the New Shanghai Circus and Acrobrats of China Show, the Branson Family Fun Factory, the Titanic Museum, the Pony Express National Museum, the Society of Memories Doll Museum, the National Military Heritage Museum, the Jesse James House Museum, the Lazer Force Lazer Tag Zone, the Lake of the Ozarks, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, the National Frontier Trails Museum, the Mark Twain Cave, the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum, the Becky Thatcher House, the Optical Science Center and Museum, the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Statue, the Dickerson Park Zoo, the Discovery Center of Springfield, the Missouri Civil War Museum, the Lewis and Clark Center, the St. Charles Historic District, the Missouri Wall of Fame, the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center, the Missouri State Capitol Complex, the Cole County Historical Museum, the Museum of Missouri Military History, the Six Flags St. Louis Theme Park, the Hidden Valley Ski Resort, the Route 66 State Park, the Reptile World Zoo, the Joplin History, Cookies, Science, Sports, and Dolls Museum Complex, the Sachs Butterfly House, a portion of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail that travels through eleven States, the National World War One Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Airline History Museum, the Harley Davidson Motorcycle Factory, the Kansas City Zoo, the College Basketball Experience, the International Money Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the International House of Prayer, the Hallmark Greeting Cards Factory, the Kansas City Water Fountains, Union Station, the American Jazz Museum, the Missouri Town 1855 Replica, the Kaleidoscope Children's Museum, a portion of the Santa Fe Trail, the Kansas City Museum, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, a portion of the Oregon Trail, the State Ballet of Missouri, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Saint Louis Zoo, the Anheuser Busch Brewery Tours, the Gateway Arch, the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, the Ulyssess S. Grant National Historic Site, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Transportation, the Museum of Westward Expansion, the Missouri History Museum, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the Jefferson Barracks Historic Park, the Jasper's Antique Radio Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, the Black World History Wax Museum, the St. Louis Walk of Fame, the Old Post Office and Customs House Historic Site, the Center of Contemporary Arts, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, the Talking Rocks Caverns, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, the Historic Daniel Boone Home and Boonesfield Village, the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library, the Arrow Rock State Historic Site, the Jesse James Bank Museum, the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, the Hunter Dawson State Historic Site, General Sweeny's Museum of Civil War History, the Our Lady of the Rivers Shrine, the Fort Davidson State Historic Site, the Onondaga Cave, the Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site, the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog, the Wild Animal Safari, the Snow Creek Ski Area, the Fort Charrette Historic Village and Indian Trading Post, the Harry S. Truman Birthplace State Historic Site, the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, the Iron Mountain Scenic Railway, the Jesse James Farm and Museum, the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, the Mark Twain National Forest, the Bonne Terre Mine, the Blue Spring Geyser, the George Washington Carver National Monument, the Meramec Cavern, the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, the Missouri Mines State Historic Site, the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site, the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, the Lone Jack Battlefield Museum and Soldier's Cemetary, the Promised Land Zoo, the Ozark Caverns, the Stars and Stripes Museum, and the National Tiger Sanctuary. Kansas City: Founded in 1838 as Town of Kansas, and comprising more than three hundred and eighteen square miles in Clay, Cass, Jackson, and Platte Counties, Kansas City is located at the point where the Missouri and Kansas Rivers meet. The Spanish and French controlled the region that became Kansas City until it was sold to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Incorporated March 28, 1863, and an important stop along the California, Santa Fe, and Oregon Trails, Kansas City was settled in the Westport Landing area along the Missouri River by the Kansas Town Company, who gave the city its name after the English spelling of the word "Cansez". Heavily divided over the issue of slavery in Kansas and Missouri upon their entries into the Union as Free States many Civil War battles were faught in the "Bleeding Kansas" area including the August 11, 1862 First Battle of Independence, the October 21-22, 1864 Second Battle of Independence, and the October 23, 1864 Battle of Westport that ended the last Confederate operation west of the Mississippi River in what has popularly become known as the "Gettysburg of the West". Possessing more than two hundred fountains, the second most of any city in the world, Kansas City is known as the City of Fountains. Kansas City is regarded as the "Paris of the Plains" because it features more boulevards than any other city in the world except Paris, France. Located close to the geographic center and the population center of the contiguous United States Kansas City is often referred to as the "Heart of America". The population of Town of Kansas exploded after 1869 when the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad bridge over the Missouri River opened and the town became known as Kansas City. Possessing a Humid Continental climate, and laying in the "Tornado Alley" Region of the Country, Kansas City has experienced several devastating weather phenomenons including the Northeast Kansas Flood of 1951, the 1957 Rushkin Heights-Hickman Mills tornado, the 1982 Kansas City derecho windstorn, the July 27, 1993 Great Flood of Kansas City, the January 2002 Kansas City Ice Storm, the May 4, 2003 Kansas City tornadoes, and the Great Flood of June 22, 2008. Famous for steaks and barbeque Kansas City contains 214 urban parks, the Cliff Drive State Scenic Byway, Swope Park, one of the largest city parks in the United States, and gambling casinos on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Several Feature Movies and television programs have been filmed in the Kansas City area including The Delinquents, The Truman Show, Article 99, Kansas City, Paper Moon, In Cold Blood, Sometimes They Come Back, North Street, The Bruno Movie, and The Day After. Major Corporations that have been headquartered in Kansas City include the Kansas City Southern Railway, Commerce BancShares Incorporated, the American Century Investments Company, the UMB Financial Corporation, the HNTB Architecture and Design Firm, the Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company, Novastar Financial Incorporated, the HOK Sports Company, the 360 Architecture Company, the Handmark Mobile Media Company, the Assurant Employee Benefits Insurance Products Company, the Boulevard Brewing Company, the Smith Electric Vehicles Manufacturing Corporation, the Andrews McMeel Universal Corporation, the Sprint Nextel Corporation, the AMC Theatres Company, the Applebees Restuarant Company, Garmin International Incorporated, the Seaboard Corporation, the Russell Stover Candies Corporation, Hallmark Cards Incorporated, Dairy Farmers of America Incorporated, the Black and Veatch Company, the Ferrellgas Company, the Long-Bell Lumber Company, the Sanafi-Aventis Drug Manufacturing Company, Marion Laboratories, the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant, the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, the Kansas City Non-Nuclear Components Plant, H&R Block, and the KC Masterpiece Barbeque Sauce Company. Kansas City is the home of the extremely popular Kansas City Farmer's Market, the Country Club Plaza, the first US suburban shopping district for customers arriving by automobiles, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Kansas City Federal Reserve, and the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor. Kansas City has hosted three National Presidential Conventions including the 1900 Democratic National Convention, the 1928 Republican National Convention, and the 1976 Republican National Convention. Popular Kansas City Attractions include Kauffman Stadium, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Kansas City Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Science City at Union Station, the Kansas City Zoo, the National World War One Museum at Liberty Memorial, the Steamboat Arabia Museum, the Airline History Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the American Jazz Museum, the National Archives and Records Administration: Central Plains Region Facility, the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site, the Black Archives of Mid-America Research Center, the Kansas City Starlight Theatre, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the Irish Museum and Cultural Center, the Kansas City Stockyards, the Kansas City Livestock Exchange Building, and Arrowhead Stadium. Saint Louis: Famous for the Gateway Arch, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis was founded in 1764 south of the meeting place of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers by Colonial French fur traders. Seceding from St. Louis County on August 22, 1876 and becoming an Independent City, one that is not part of any other local government, St. Louis is known as the "Gateway to the West" because of its role in the westward expansion of the United States. Incorporated December 9, 1822 St. Louis became the second largest US port and hosted the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Olympic Games. The many German breweries possessed by St. Louis, including such companies as the Falstaff Brewing Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, and the Lemp Brewery, helped define beer in the United States. Originally explored by the French, who named it Louisiana, after King Louis XIV, the area that became St. Louis was a center for the Prehistoric Mississippian Mound Building culture, and the town is known as "Mound City" because of it. St. Louis was established as the capitol of Upper Louisiana in 1765, and controlled by the Spanish and the French until 1803, when it was sold as part of the Louisiana Purchase. St. Louis was the home of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as well as the starting point of their May 1804 Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. A Rust Belt City St. Louis received the 2006 World Leadership Award for urban renewal. St. Louis is the home of the Wainwright Building, one of the world's first skyscrapers. The July 27, 1817 arrival of the Zebulon M. Pike began the Steamboat Era in St. Louis helping make the city a boom town and a popular inland port. St. Louis contains more than one hundred city parks including Forest Park, one of the world's largest urban parks, the Missouri Botannical Garden, one of the world's leading botannical research centers, Tower Grove Park, one of the oldest walking parks in the United States, and Citigarden, an urban sculpture park with an urban gardens theme section, a river bluffs theme area, and a flood plains theme region. Major Corporations that have been located in St. Louis include the Graybar Electric Company, the Edward D. Jones Financial Services Company, the Scottrade Discount Retail Brokerage Firm, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Holdings Incoporated, the Emerson Electric Company, the Boeing Defense, Space, and Security Company, the Energizer Battery Company, the Express Scripts Pharmacy Benefits Company, the Charter Communications Company, the Monsanto Agricultural Biotechnology Corporation, the Purina Mills Animal Feeds Company, the Citigroup Incorporated Financial Services Company, the Wells Fargo Advisors Company, the MasterCard Worldwide Corporation, the Brown Shoe Company, the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Company, the Success Automobile Manufacturing Company, the DaimlerChrysler Minivan Manufacturing Plant, and the DaimlerChrysler Truck Manufacturing Plant. Popular St. Louis area Attractions include the St. Louis Art Museum, Forest Park, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Building, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Missouri History Museum, the Saint Louis Union Station, the Cathedral Basilica Saint Louis, the Basilica of St. Louis the King, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, the Gateway Arch, the Saint Louis Zoo, the Municipal Theater, the oldest and largest outdoor musical theater in the United States, the St. Louis Science Center, the James S. McDonnell Planetarium, the Jewel Box Floral Conservatory, the Saint Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum, Busch Stadium, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the starting point of Old Route 66, the Magic House City Museum, the Cahokia State Historic Site and Cahokia Mounds Museum, the Museum of Transportation, the Laumeier Sculpture Park, the Black World History Wax Museum, the Challenger Spacecraft Learning Center, Six Flags St. Louis, the World Bird Sanctuary, and the Tom Sawyer Paddlewheeler. Springfield: Incorporated in 1838 Springfield is known as the "Queen City of the Ozarks," the "Cultural Center of the Ozarks," the "Birthplace of Route 66," and the "Gateway to the Ozarks". Founded by John Polk Campbell in 1829 Springfield possesses a portion of the Trail of Tears, the Old Wire Road, and the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Auto Route. Several Civil War battles were contested in the Springfield area including the August 10, 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, known as the "Bull Run of the West," and won by the Confederacy, the October 25, 1861 First Battle of Springfield, the only Union victory in southwestern Missouri in 1861, the March 6-8, 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge in southwest Arkansas that gave the Union control of Missouri, and the January 8, 1862 Second Battle of Springfield that featured rare, for the Civil War, house-to-house and urban fighting. The "quick draw" shootout dual between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt Junior on July 21, 1865, in the Springfield town square, helped begin the Wild West Period of the United States. Major industries that have been located in Springfield include the railroads, education, health services, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, business services, and tourism. Major Corporations that have been headquartered in Springfield include the Bass Pro Shops Company, the O'Reilly Auto Parts Company, the BKD Accounting Firm, and the John Q. Hammons Luxury Hotels and Resorts Corporation. Other major Corporations that have been located in Springfield include Kraft Foods Incorporated, the Solo Cup Company, the Regal Beloit Electric Motors Corporation, the Northrup Grumman Interconnect Technologies Corporation, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and the St. Louis-San Fransisco Railroad Company. Several popular television programs have originated from Springfield including the Ozark Jubilee hosted by Red Foley and featuring such Top Named Country Music Performers as Billy Walker, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, Jean Shephard, and many more, the Five-Star Jubilee Country Music Variety Show, and the Talent Varieties Country Music Talent Show. National Register of Historic Places sites found in Springfield include the Walnut Street Historic District, the Drury Stone Chapel, the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, the Springfield National Cemetary, the Landers Theatre, the Christ Episcopal Church, the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine Center, the Gillioz Theatre, and the Jefferson Avenue Footbridge. Popular Springfield area Attractions include the Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks, the History Museum for Springfield-Greene County, the Riverbluff Cave, the Battle of Springfield Driving Tour, the Dickerson Park Zoo, the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, the Springfield Art Museum, the Creamery Arts Center, the Dr. Michael J. Clarke History Museum of Ozarks Scouting, the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center, and the Wild Bill Hickok-Davis Tutt Junior Shootout Site. Independence: Independence is known as the "Queen City of the Trails" because of being the departure point of the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails. Independence is the International Headquarters of many Latter Day Saints denominations, especially the Community of Christ, the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), and the Restoration Branches. Independence is also the home of that religion's New Jerusalem Temple. Originally inhabited by Osage and Missouri Indians, and founded on March 29, 1827, Independence became an important Frontier town of the Old West. Two minor Civil War battles were contested in the Independence area including the August 11, 1862 First Battle of Independence that allowed Confederate soldiers to control the town, and the Second Battle of Independence, faught on October 21 and 22, 1864 that began the decisive phase of the Confederate Missouri Campaign. Independence was the birthplace and boyhood home of President Harry S. Truman and houses the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Popular Independence area Attractions include the National Frontier Trails Museum and Interpretive Center, the Leila's Hair Museum, the Puppetry Arts Institute, the 1859 Jail and Marshal's Museum, the 1881-built Vaile Mansion, a thirty room house regarded as one of the best examples of Second Empire Victorian architecture in the United States, the Bingham Waggoner Estate, the Harry S. Truman Home, the Merrill J. Mattes Research Library and Archives, Independence Square, the Children's Peace Pavilion, and the Chicago and Alton Railroad Depot Transportation Museum. Columbia: Settled by the Prehistoric Mississippian Moundbuilding Culture of Native American Indians, and one of the most highly educated cities in the Country, Columbia is known as the "Athens of Missouri," "CoMo," and "College Town USA". Located along the Missouri River, between the Ozarks and the Northern Plains, and originally incorporated in 1818 as Smithton, then renamed Columbia in 1821, the city has been ranked by Money Magazine as their Second-Best Place To Live In The United States. Claimed in 1678 for France by French Explorer Robert LaSalle, Lewis and Clark traveled by the area that became Columbia in 1803, and famed Frontiersman Daniel Boone established a salt lick northwest of the city along the Booneslick Trail. A Civil War Slave State Missouri remained in the Union, and no battles were faught in Columbia, although nearby Centralia and Booneville saw considerable major actions including the First Battle of Booneville on June 17, 1861, the Second Battle of Boonville on September 13, 1861, Shelby's Great Raid on October 11, 1863, the Centralia Massacre on September 23, 1864, the Battle of Centralia on September 27, 1864, and the Army of Missouri's Fourth Battle of Boonville on October 11, 1864. Major industries that have been found in Columbia include higher education, research, business, health care, medicine, insurance, technology, stagecoach transportation for the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails, agriculture, and government. Major Corporations that have been located in Columbia include the Shelter Insurance Corporation, the Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company, the State Farm Insurance Operations Center, the Columbia Insurance Group Incorporated, the Slackers CDs and Games Company, the Port of Rocheport Trading Post, the Missouri Farmers Association Regional Agricultural Cooperative, the Missouri Farmers Association Oil Cooperative, Datastorm Technologies Incorporated, the Carfax Data Center, and MBS Textbook Exchange Incorporated. Located along the Mississippi Flyway several species of wildlife make their homes in the Columbia area including urbanized coyotes, whitetail deer, Canadian Geese, Great Blue Herons, wild turkeys, Bald Eagles, cottontail rabbits, opossums, and a wide variety of birds. Columbia contains four National Historic Districts including the East Campus Neighborhood, Downtown Columbia, the North Ninth Street Historic District, and the Francis Quadrangle, the historical center of the University of Missouri, with the 1893-built Jesse Hall Administration Building, the 1843-built Academic Hall's six columns, and the Memorial Union Community Center. Popular Columbia area Attractions include the Missouri Theatre Center For The Arts, the True/False Film Festival, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, the "We Always Swing" Jazz Series, the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival, the Minerals and Fossils Museum, the Boone Junction Village in Nifong Park, the Museum of Anthropology, the Walters-Boone County Historical Museum, the Boone County Fair, the Living Windows Festival, the Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area, the Lake of the Woods Recreation Area, the Alpine Park and Garden, the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Garden and Nature Trail, the Boy Scouts of America Troop 101 Statue of Liberty Replica, and the World War One Liberty Memorial To The Fallen. Series: The United States Series I am writing here on associatedcontent.com provides an indepth look at all fifty States that make up this Great Country of ours and their five largest cities. The current list of Articles for the United States Series I have published to date include: So This Is Sweet Home Alabama Arkansas - People of the South Wind Alaska - The Land of the Midnight Sun Arizona - The Valley of the Sun California - The Golden Gate, Earthquakes and Grizzly Bears Colorful Colorado - The Rocky Mountains, Skiing, and High Technology Connecticut - The Land of Steady Habits Delaware - The Small Wonder Florida - The Snowbirds R Us State Georgia - Goobers, Peaches, and Buzzards Hawaii - Luaus, Pineapples, and Beaches Idaho - The Gem of the Mountains and Potatoes State Illinois - Mining, Factories, and Labor Unions Indiana - Land of Steel and Ducks Iowa - The Ethanol and Food Capitol of the World Bleeding Kansas America's Flattest State Kentucky - The Land of Tomorrow Louisiana - The Child of the Mississippi Maine - Lobsters, Lighthouses, and Black Bears Maryland - The "Oh Say Can You See" State Massachusetts - The Cradle of Liberty Michigan - The Automotive State Minnesota - The Bread and Butter State Mississippi - Where Cotton Was King Comments from readers are always welcome so let me know what you think about these Articles. Sources: This Article was compiled from several websites that provide much more information about Missouri including: visitkc.com, explorestlouis.com, springfieldmo.org, visitindependence.com, and gocolumbiamo.com |
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