Missouri
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- Names
Missouri
MO
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited by Osage and Missouri Indians when French arrived in 17th cen.; area went to Spain in 1762, back to France and then sold to USA in Louisiana Purchase of 1803; was a slave state, but did not secede from the Union in the Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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