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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ miz-OOR-ee) is a 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 at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. 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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Missouri Fox Trotter stallion

The Missouri Fox Trotter is a horse breed that originated in the state of Missouri in the United States. It was developed in the Ozark Mountains by settlers in the early 19th century, and quickly developed into a gaited breed appreciated for its stock horse abilities, stamina and smooth gaits. It performs an ambling gait known as the "fox trot", a four-beat broken diagonal gait in which the front foot of the diagonal pair lands before the hind, eliminating the moment of suspension and increasing smoothness. The main breed registry was begun in 1948 and as of 2012 registers almost 100,000 horses. A European registry was begun in 1992, and as of 2009 recognizes around 600 Fox Trotters living in Europe. In 2006, a smaller registry, focused on the preservation of the original, historic type, was begun in the United States. The Fox Trotter is a mid-sized, muscular breed, used mainly for trail riding and ranch work. (Full article...)

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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the three-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth most populous with an estimated 128,555 residents in 2022.

As a Midwestern college town, Columbia maintains high-quality health care facilities, cultural opportunities, and a low cost of living. The tripartite establishment of Stephens College (1833), the University of Missouri (1839), and Columbia College (1851), which surround the city's Downtown to the east, south, and north, has made Columbia a center of learning. At its center is 8th Street (also known as the Avenue of the Columns), which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse and the City Hall. Originally an agricultural town, education is now Columbia's primary economic concern, with secondary interests in the healthcare, insurance, and technology sectors; it has never been a manufacturing center. Companies like Shelter Insurance, Carfax, Veterans United Home Loans, and Slackers CDs and Games, were founded in the city. Cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival and the Roots N Blues Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the state's only college athletic program which sponsors FBS football, play football at Faurot Field and basketball at Mizzou Arena as members of the rigorous Southeastern Conference. (Full article...)

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Image 1Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 2Christopher 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 3Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 4Missouri 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 5Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 6A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 7The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 8Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 9The 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 10Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 11Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 12The 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 13Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 14A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 15Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 16Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 17Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 18Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 19The 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 20Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 21General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 22Missouri 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 23Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 24The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 25The 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 26American 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)

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 28The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 29Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 30Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 31Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 32The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 33A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 34A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 35The 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 36Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 37The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 38Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 39Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 40The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 41Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 42Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 43Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 44Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 45Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 46General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 47Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 48Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 49Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 50Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 51Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 52Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 53Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 54The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 55A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 56The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 57Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 58African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 59Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 60The 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 61The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 62Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 63The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 64Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 65Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 66Map 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 67African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 68St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 69The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 70Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 71Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 72The 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 73The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 74The 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 75The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 76The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 77Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 78Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)

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... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... that after his professional gridiron football career, Ed "Brick" Travis served as president of the Missouri Auto Dealers Association and as president of a local school board?
... 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 a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?

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