Missouri Valley

Missouri Valley may refer to some places in the United States:

  • Missouri Valley, Iowa, a small city
  • The Missouri River Valley
  • The Missouri Valley Conference, a college athletic conference
  • The Missouri Valley Football Conference, a college athletic conference
  • Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri

Famous quotes containing the words missouri and/or valley:

    “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)

    “I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)