Missouri
- McDonald County declared itself a territory (the McDonald Territory) for a brief period of time in July 1961.
- Southern and central Missouri was often in the proposed state of Ozarkia to include northern and western Arkansas.
- Both northern and eastern Missouri including St. Louis attempted state secession drives in the early 20th century.
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. State Partition Proposals
Famous quotes containing the word missouri:
“Then they seen it, the old Missouri River shinin’ in the moon and across it the lights of St. Louis.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“The traveller on the prarie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)