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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ ^ⓘ miz-OOR-ee) is a doubly landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capital is Jefferson City.

Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. The Indigenous Osage and Missouria nations inhabited the area when European people arrived in the 17th century. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South rushed into the new Missouri Territory; Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business.

Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouri has been called the "Mother of the West", the "Cave State", and the "Show Me State". Its culture blends elements of the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is the birthplace of the musical genres ragtime, Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and the lesser-known St. Louis-style barbecue, can be found across the state and beyond. (Full article...)

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Lawrence Berry Washington (November 26, 1811 – September 21, 1856) was an American lawyer, military officer, author, Forty-niner, border ruffian, and a member of the Washington family. Washington was born on his family's Cedar Lawn plantation near Charles Town, Virginia (present-day West Virginia) and was the eldest of 13 children. He practiced law, then served as a second lieutenant in the Virginia Volunteers during the Mexican–American War. During his service in the war, Washington reportedly wore the sword of his great-granduncle George Washington.

Following the Mexican–American War, Washington traveled to California in 1849 as a Forty-niner in the California Gold Rush and authored the novel, A Tale to be Told Some Fifty Years Hence. Washington then relocated east to Missouri in the 1850s, where he remained for a few years and fought as a Border Ruffian during the Bleeding Kansas confrontations over slavery along the border between Kansas Territory and Missouri. While under the command of Captain Henry Clay Pate, Washington was present at the June 1856 Free-Stater attack known as Battle of Black Jack, where he sustained minor injuries. Washington died by drowning after falling overboard from a steamboat on the Missouri River in September 1856. His family's descendants claim Washington was murdered by Jayhawkers. (Full article...)

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St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark and former train station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s. The last Amtrak passenger train left the station in 1978.

In the 1980s, it was renovated as a hotel, shopping center, and entertainment complex. The 2010s and 2020s saw more renovation and expansion of entertainment and office capacity. The current hotel portion of the station is currently a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (Full article...)

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Image 1Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 2American pioneers such as Daniel Boone with his sons Daniel Morgan Boone, Nathan Boone, and other family members, came to Spanish-controlled Missouri during the 1790s. (from History of Missouri)
Image 3The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 4General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 5The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
Image 6Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 7Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 8General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 9The Shelley House in St. Louis was the focus of a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibited restrictive covenants in housing. (from History of Missouri)
Image 10Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 11Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 12Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 13Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 14Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 15Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 16The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
Image 17Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 18Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 19Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 20Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 21The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 22The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 23Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 24The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 25Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 26The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 27The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 28Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 29Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 30Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 31Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 32Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 33Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 34A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 35A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 36A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 37The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 38Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 39The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 40A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)

Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Black or African American

40–50%

(from Missouri)

Image 42The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 43Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 44Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 45The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 46Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 47Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 48Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 49The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 50Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 51Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 52Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 53The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to a non-President and the first for an African-American. (from History of Missouri)
Image 54Christopher Bond became the youngest person elected Governor of Missouri in 1972 and was part of the rise of the Republican Party in the state. (from History of Missouri)
Image 55Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 56The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 57Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 58The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 59African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 60St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 61Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 62Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 63The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 64Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 65Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 66Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 67Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 68Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 69A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 70Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 71Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 72The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 73Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 74Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 75The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 76Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 77African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 78Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)

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... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?

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