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Deal of the Week
The state of MISSOURI,
where the forest meets the prairie and the
Mississippi River meets the Missouri River,
has just two significant cities. Dominant St
Louis sits midway down its eastern
fringe; Kansas City is almost
directly across on the western border. The
pair are linked by I-70, but there’s not
much in between to warrant stopping off. In
contrast, the south features the
beautiful hillsides, streams and ragged
lakes of the Ozark Mountains, as well
as the booming country-and-western town of Branson,
while in the east, small river towns
such as Mark Twain’s Hannibal and
serene Ste Genevieve brighten the
course of the Mississippi. The northwest,
home of the Pony Express and outlaw Jesse
James, still strikes up images of frontier
times.
Although the first French colonists
honored the claims of local Native
Americans, such as the original Missouri,
when the area was sold to the US in 1803 as
part of the Louisiana Purchase, the Indians
were driven west by a great rush of
settlers. In the 1840s and 1850s immigrants
from Germany and Ireland flooded into
eastern Missouri. Outnumbering their
pro-slavery predecessors, they swung the
balance in favor of staying in the Union
during the Civil War. However, Confederate
guerrilla forces attracted considerable
support among slave-owners in the west of
the state. Meanwhile Missouri, and St Louis
in particular, was establishing itself as an
important gateway to the West. Today, the
“Show Me State” (so called
because of the supposed skepticism of the
typical Missourian) retains a conservative
air, particularly in the rural areas.
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