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A third major settlement was established in 1769, when Louis Blanchette, a Canadian trader, set up a trading post on the northwest bank of the Missouri River, which eventually grew into the town of St. Charles. [30]
Missouri was the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River to be admitted to the Union. The state capital moved to Jefferson City in 1826. At the time of its admission, the western border of Missouri was a straight line from Iowa to Arkansas based on the confluence of the Kaw River with the Missouri River in the Kansas City West Bottoms.
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
Along with his brother Nathan, he expanded the existing Native American trace into the Boon's Lick Road from the Boone settlement in eastern Missouri, along the Missouri River near present-day Matson, Missouri, to a salt spring in central Missouri. This became the primary road used by American settlers as they moved west into central Missouri ...
One of the primary causes of settlement for indigenous peoples was the presence of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, especially the Missouri River. [3] Native Americans used the large forests located along the river to construct canoes , which were then used for transport on the rivers. [ 4 ]
A river in the city of fountains: an environmental history of Kansas City and the Missouri River (University Press of Kansas, 2018). Matlin, John S. Political Party Machines of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and the Kansas City Democratic Machine. (PhD Dissertation, University of Birmingham, UK, 2009) online; Bibliography on pp 277–92.
Franklin, Missouri, founded in 1816, became a large port on the Missouri River and an early center of settlement and economic activity. There, the Boone's Lick Trail ended and William Becknell (c.1787/88-1856), blazed the Santa Fe Trail further to the southwest to the adjacent Spanish Empire 's colonial territories in its province of New Mexico .
A 1948 article in the Missouri Historical Review defined the antebellum "Little Dixie" region as a 13-county area between the Mississippi River north of St. Louis to Missouri River counties in the central part of the state (Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Howard, Lincoln, Pike, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Randolph, Saline, and Shelby counties). [2]