A report on Missouri and St. Louis

The home of Auguste Chouteau in St. Louis. Chouteau and Pierre Laclède founded St. Louis in 1764.

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham

In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native American allies, in the Battle of St. Louis.

The 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.

White men pose, 104 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1852 at Lynch's slave market.

Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864

Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894.

South Broadway after a May 27, 1896, tornado

Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910

The Government Building at the 1904 World's Fair

General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri.

View of the Arch (completed 1965) from Laclede's Landing, the remaining section of St. Louis's commercial riverfront

African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938.

Wainwright Building (1891), an important early skyscraper designed by Louis Sullivan

A cluster of skyscrapers is located just west of the Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River.

Many houses in Lafayette Square are built with a blending of Greek Revival, Federal and Italianate styles.

The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest

The Delmar Loop is a neighborhood close to Washington University, on the border of the city and St. Louis County.

The 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.

The Captains' Return statue inundated by the Mississippi River, 2010.

The 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.

Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark expedition

Map of racial distribution in St. Louis, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

Pruitt–Igoe was a large housing project constructed in 1954, which became infamous for poverty, crime and segregation. It was demolished in 1972.

The 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.

The Anheuser-Busch packaging plant in St. Louis

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which is affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine

Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station

The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City

The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Enterprise Center in downtown St. Louis

Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election

The Sinquefield Cup chess tournament is hosted annually in St. Louis

Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus

Forest Park features a variety of attractions, including the St. Louis Zoo, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum, and the St. Louis Science Center.

Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis

The Jewel Box, a greenhouse and event venue in Forest Park

The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District

Missouri has four major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL.

St. Louis University High School was founded in 1818. Their current building pictured here was built in 1924.

A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO.

The former St. Louis Post-Dispatch building in downtown St. Louis

The St. Louis Cardinals playing at Busch Stadium

Interstate 64 crossing the Mississippi in Downtown St. Louis

St. Louis MetroLink Red Line train leaving St. Louis Union Station

University City-Big Bend Subway Station along the Blue Line, near Washington University.

Control tower and main terminal at St. Louis Lambert

An eastbound Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis freight train passing under the Hampton Avenue viaduct.

St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri.

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The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City.

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Mississippi River

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Second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

The beginning of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca (2004)

Former head of navigation, St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, viewed from Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin

The Upper Mississippi River at its confluence with the Missouri River north of St. Louis

The confluence of the Mississippi (left) and Ohio (right) rivers at Cairo, Illinois, the demarcation between the Middle and the Lower Mississippi River

Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans

Sequence of NASA MODIS images showing the outflow of fresh water from the Mississippi (arrows) into the Gulf of Mexico (2004)

View along the former riverbed at the Tennessee/Arkansas state line near Reverie, Tennessee (2007)

In Minnesota, the Mississippi River runs through the Twin Cities (2007)

Community of boathouses on the Mississippi River in Winona, MN (2006)

The Mississippi River at the Chain of Rocks just north of St. Louis (2005)

A low-water dam deepens the pool above the Chain of Rocks Lock near St. Louis (2006)

The Stone Arch Bridge, the Third Avenue Bridge and the Hennepin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis (2004)

The Chain of Rocks Bridge at St. Louis, Missouri

The Hernando de Soto Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee (2009)

Towboat and barges at Memphis, Tennessee

Ships on the lower part of the Mississippi

Oil tanker on the Lower Mississippi near the Port of New Orleans

Lock and Dam No. 11, north of Dubuque, Iowa (2007)

Lock and Dam No. 2, near Hastings, Minnesota (2007)

Lock and Dam No. 15, is the largest roller dam in the world Davenport, Iowa; Rock Island, Illinois. (1990)

Formation of the Atchafalaya River and construction of the Old River Control Structure.

Project design flood flow capacity for the Mississippi river in thousands of cubic feet per second.

Soldiers of the Missouri Army National Guard sandbag the River in Clarksville, Missouri, June 2008, following flooding.

Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto A.D. 1541 by William Henry Powell depicts Hernando de Soto and Spanish Conquistadores seeing the Mississippi River for the first time.

Map of the French settlements (blue) in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763).

Ca. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition.

Route of the Marquette-Jolliete Expedition of 1673

Shifting sand bars made early navigation difficult.

Mississippi River from Eunice, Arkansas, a settlement destroyed by gunboats during the Civil War.

The Old River Control Structure complex. View is to the east-southeast, looking downriver on the Mississippi, with the three dams across channels of the Atchafalaya River to the right of the Mississippi. Concordia Parish, Louisiana is in the foreground, on the right, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi, is in the background, across the Mississippi on the left.

Great River Road in Wisconsin near Lake Pepin (2005)

The American paddlefish is an ancient relict from the Mississippi

The source of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca

The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, the waterway's flow is moderated by 43 dams.

Midwestern United States

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One of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau .

Divisions of the Midwest by the U.S. Census Bureau into East North Central and West North Central, separated largely by the Mississippi River.

Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska

The Driftless Area as viewed from Wildcat Mountain State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Prairie in Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site

Young Oglala Lakota girl in front of tipi with puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Cumulus clouds hover above a yellowish prairie at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, native lands to the Sioux.

c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition

Beaver hunting grounds, the basis of the fur trade

The state cessions that eventually allowed for the creation of the territories north and southwest of the River Ohio

Lake Michigan is shared by four Midwestern states: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

The Upper Mississippi River near Harpers Ferry, Iowa

An animation depicting when United States territories and states forbade or allowed slavery, 1789–1861

A map of various Underground Railroad routes

Minneapolis, Minnesota is on the Mississippi River

Omaha, Nebraska, is on the Missouri River

Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

German population density in the United States, 1870 census

A pastoral farm scene near Traverse City, Michigan, with a classic American red barn

Standing wheat in Kansas, part of America's Breadbasket

Soybean fields at Applethorpe Farm, north of Hallsville in Ross County, Ohio

The Chicago Board of Trade Building a National Historic Landmark

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan.

The first local meeting of the new Republican Party took place here in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854.

Midwestern U.S. Senators by party for the 117th Congress

Midwestern U.S. Representatives by party for the 117th Congress

The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Other large Midwestern cities include (in order by population) Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Wichita, Cleveland, St. Paul, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.

Missouri River

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Longest river in the United States.

Holter Lake, a reservoir on the upper Missouri River

The Missouri in North Dakota, which was the furthest upstream that French explorers traveled on the river

The Yellowstone River, the fifth longest tributary of the Missouri, which it joins in North Dakota

Nebraska's Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station was inundated when the Missouri River flooded in 2011

High silt content makes the Missouri River (left) noticeably lighter than the Mississippi River (right) at their confluence north of St. Louis.

Karl Bodmer, A Mandan Village, c. 1840–1843

Massacre of the Villasur Expedition, painted c. 1720

Map of western North America drawn by Lewis and Clark

Fur Traders on Missouri River, painted by George Caleb Bingham c. 1845

Fort Clark on the Missouri in February 1834, painted by Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer, Fort Pierre and the Adjacent Prairie, c. 1833, -- the river, river bluffs and floodplain are depicted around the fort settlement

Holter Dam, a run-of-the-river structure on the upper Missouri, shortly after completion in 1918

Black Eagle Dam is dynamited in 1908 to save Great Falls from the floodwave caused by the failure of Hauser Dam

Map showing major features of the Pick–Sloan Plan; other dams and their reservoirs are denoted by triangles

Fort Peck Dam, the uppermost dam of the Missouri River Mainstem System

Painting of the steamboat Yellowstone, one of the earliest commercial vessels to run on the river, circa 1833. The dangerous currents in the river caused the ship to run aground on a sandbar in this illustration.

The Far West is typical of the shallow-draft steamboats used to navigate the Missouri River. Famed captain and pilot Grant Marsh set several speed records, including one taking wounded soldiers from the surviving segments of the George Armstrong Custer expedition to get medical attention.

A barge travels North on the Missouri River at Highway 364 in Saint Charles, Missouri.

Gavins Point Dam at Yankton, South Dakota is the uppermost obstacle to navigation from the mouth on the Missouri today.

The Missouri River near New Haven, Missouri, looking upstream – note the riprap wing dam protruding into the river from the left to direct its flow into a narrower channel

The Missouri River at the confluence with the Floyd River in Sioux City, IA, near the upper most navigable reach of the river today

Freshwater ecoregions of the Missouri basin

Missouri River as it flows through Great Falls, Montana

Agricultural fields dominate most of the former floodplain, including this area around the Missouri's confluence with the Nishnabotna River in western Missouri.

Part of the Missouri National Recreational River, a 98 mi preserved stretch of the Missouri on the border of South Dakota and Nebraska

Rising in the Rocky Mountains of the Eastern Centennial Mountains of Southwestern Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2341 mi before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.

Ozarks

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The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.

Grey dolomite laid down c. 500 mya nonconformally overlies reddish rhyolite that formed close to 1500 mya in the St. Francois Mountains.

Outcrop of Roubidoux sandstone along a bluff in Douglas County, Missouri

Big Spring, the largest freshwater spring in the Ozarks, discharges 304 e6USgal of water per day into the Current River.

Canoers on the Current River in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways

Roark Bluff on the Buffalo National River

View of the Ozarks from Ha Ha Tonka State Park on Lake of the Ozarks, Camden County, Missouri

CCC lookout on White Rock Mountain, Franklin County, Arkansas

The first public school in Jasper County, Missouri

Artist's Point, located along the Boston Mountains Scenic Loop in Crawford County, Arkansas

The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.

On the northern Ozark border are the cities of St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri.

The Old Courthouse was built in downtown St. Louis from 1839 to 1856 as the second purpose-built county courthouse for St. Louis County.

St. Louis County, Missouri

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Local politician David H. Armstrong was a strong supporter of the separation of the city of St. Louis from St. Louis County.

St. Louis County is located in the eastern-central portion of Missouri.

It is bounded by the City of St. Louis and the Mississippi River to the east, the Missouri River to the north, and the Meramec River to the south.

Louisiana (New France)

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Administrative district of New France.

The Mississippi River basin and tributaries

Lower Louisiana in the white area – the pink represents Canada – part of Canada below the great lakes was ceded to Louisiana in 1717. Brown represents British colonies (map before 1736)

A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under the names of Louisiana in 1720 by Herman Moll

A map of Louisiana by Christoph Weigel, published in 1734

Map of New France (blue color) in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763), that was part of the Seven Years' War

Map of North America during the 17th century

The Code Noir, which was applied in Louisiana during the 18th century and, later, with some modifications, in the West Indies

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, governor of Louisiana in the early 17th century

French unmarried women transported to Louisiana as brides for the colonists

Eugène Delacroix, Les Natchez, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1832–1835. The Natchez tribe were the fiercest opponents of the French in Louisiana.

Map of current U.S. states that were completely or mostly inside the borders of post-1764 colonial Louisiana at the time of Louisiana Purchase

Within this vast territory, only two areas saw substantial French settlement: Upper Louisiana (Haute-Louisiane), also known as the Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois), which consisted of settlements in what are now the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana; and Lower Louisiana, which comprised parts of the modern states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama.

French colonists who migrated after they lost control over New France founded outposts such as the important settlement of St. Louis (1764).

Louisiana Purchase

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The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.

1804 map of "Louisiana", bounded on the west by the Rocky Mountains

The future president James Monroe as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to France helped Robert R. Livingston in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase

The original treaty of the Louisiana Purchase

Transfer of Louisiana by Ford P. Kaiser for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)

Issue of 1953, commemorating the 150th Anniversary of signing

Flag raising in the Place d'Armes of New Orleans, marking the transfer of sovereignty over French Louisiana to the United States, December 20, 1803, as depicted by Thure de Thulstrup

The Purchase was one of several territorial additions to the U.S.

Plan of Fort Madison, built in 1808 to establish U.S. control over the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase, drawn 1810

Louisiana Purchase territory shown as American Indian land in Gratiot's map of the defences of the western & north-western frontier, 1837.

Share issued by Hope & Co. in 1804 to finance the Louisiana Purchase.

The purchase included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, including the entirety of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; large portions of North Dakota and South Dakota; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; the northeastern section of New Mexico; northern portions of Texas; New Orleans and the portions of the present state of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River; and small portions of land within Alberta and Saskatchewan.

On March 9 and 10, 1804, another ceremony, commemorated as Three Flags Day, was conducted in St. Louis, to transfer ownership of Upper Louisiana from Spain to France, and then from France to the United States.

Illinois Country

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Vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s in what is now the Midwestern United States.

1681 map of the New World: New France and the Great Lakes in the north, with a dark line as the Mississippi River to the west and the mouth of the river (and future New Orleans) then terra incognita. The area to the southwest of the Great Lakes is labeled, Pays des Illinois.

Map of western New France, including the Illinois Country, by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1688

French Map of North America 1700 (Covens and Mortier ed. 1708) -- "PAYS DES ILINOIS", near center

Reconstructed curtain and gatehouse of Fort de Chartres

Thomas Hutchins map of settlements in the Illinois Country in 1778

French Church of the Holy Family in Cahokia

Map of British America's Province of Quebec and the trans-Mississippi River, Illinois Country (center-left) under the Quebec Act of 1774.

While these names generally referred to the entire Upper Mississippi River watershed, French colonial settlement was concentrated along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in what is now the U.S. states of Illinois and Missouri, with outposts in Indiana.

On the west bank, the Spanish also continued to refer to the western region governed from St. Louis as the District of Illinois and referred to St. Louis as the city of Illinois.

Greater St. Louis

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Brookings Hall, the administrative building for Washington University in St. Louis

Greater St. Louis is a bi-state metropolitan area that completely surrounds and includes the independent city of St. Louis, the principal city.

It includes parts of both Missouri and Illinois.

Auguste Chouteau

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Pierre Laclède, stepfather of Auguste Chouteau and co-founder of St. Louis

The first Catholic church in St. Louis, where Auguste Chouteau married Marie-Thérèse Cerre in 1786.

The home of Auguste Chouteau in St. Louis, where Lewis and Clark stayed and purchased supplies for their 1803 expedition

René-Auguste Chouteau, Jr. (September 7, 1749, or September 26, 1750 – February 24, 1829 ), also known as Auguste Chouteau, was the founder of St. Louis, Missouri, a successful fur trader and a politician.