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Missouri: a bicentennial history

By Nagel , Paul C

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company;American Association for State and Local History
Year
1977
ISBN
9780393348729, 0393348725
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3325342 bytes)
Series
States and the nation
Pages
205 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;Missouri -- History;Missouri

Description

Missourians could hardly have made a more appropriate decision than to name their capital city after Thomas Jefferson. A meeting-place of major rivers, Missouri became a gateway to the promised land—the beckoning West opened up to Americans by Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. In the era of overland traders and steamboat pilots, of Thomas Hart Benton and Mark Twain, life in Missouri was strongly flavored by the Jeffersonian spirit, expressed in a suspicion of large cities, a belief that mankind flourished best in a rural setting, and a faith in the free individual as the guardian of liberty.

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