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.
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Famous quotes containing the word missouri:
“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)
“Then they seen it, the old Missouri River shinin’ in the moon and across it the lights of St. Louis.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)