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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ ^ⓘ miz-OOR-ee) is a doubly landlocked state in the Southern and 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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Harry S. Yount (March 18, 1839 – May 16, 1924) was an American Civil War soldier, mountain man, professional hunter and trapper, prospector, wilderness guide and packer, seasonal employee of the United States Department of the Interior, and the first game warden in Yellowstone National Park. He was nicknamed "Rocky Mountain Harry Yount".

Yount served two terms in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He first enlisted for a six-month term in November 1861. He was wounded and taken prisoner by the Confederate States Army in an opening skirmish of the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in March 1862, and held as a prisoner of war for nearly a month until released in a prisoner exchange. He re-enlisted in August 1862 and served until the end of the war. He was promoted three times and was a company quartermaster sergeant when he was discharged in July 1865. (Full article...)

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The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With 8,472 square miles (21,940 km²) and a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Business enterprises and employers include Cerner Corporation (the largest, with almost 10,000 local employees and about 20,000 global employees), AT&T, BNSF Railway, GEICO, Asurion, T-Mobile (formerly Sprint), Black & Veatch, AMC Theatres, Citigroup, Garmin, Hallmark Cards, Waddell & Reed, H&R Block, General Motors, Honeywell, the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant, The Kansas City Star, Bayer, Children's Mercy Hospital, Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill, and Andrews McMeel Universal (representing Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury). Shopping centers include City Market, Crown Center, Country Club Plaza, Independence Center, Legends Outlets Kansas City, Oak Park Mall, Ward Parkway Center, and Zona Rosa. (Full article...)

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Image 1General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 2Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 3The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 4Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 5The 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 6The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 7Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)

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

Legend

Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Black or African American

40–50%

(from Missouri)

Image 9Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 10The 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 11Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 12Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 13Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 14The 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 15Missouri 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 16The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 17Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 18St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 19Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 20General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 21Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 22Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 23The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 24The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 25Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 26Missouri 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 27Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 28Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 29Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 30Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 31Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 32Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 33Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 34The 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 35The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 36African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 37The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 38The 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 39Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 40American 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 41Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 42Christopher 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 43The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 44Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 45Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 46Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 47Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
Legend
- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 48Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 49Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 50Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 51A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 52The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 53The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 54Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 55Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 56Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 57Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 58Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 59Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 60The 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 61The 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 62Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 63Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 64A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 65Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 66Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 67African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 68The 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 69Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 70A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 71Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 72The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 73A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 74Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 75Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 76Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 77The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 78A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)

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... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
... 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 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 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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