Missouri: Did you mean...?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the US Congress to resolve a sectional dispute between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. Hoping to hinder the westward expansion of slavery...

The Battle of Wilson's Creek (also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, 10 August 1861) was the second major battle of the American Civil War and the first major battle of the Western theater of the war...

The Missouri River. Photo taken by Hans Andersen in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA in 2004 from the vantage point of the The Meriwether Restaurant looking toward the north. The photo resonates in the line from the Cheyenne legend...

Bleeding Kansas' was a term coined by the New York Tribune in 1856, referring to the escalating hostilities in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery activists and anti-slavery 'free staters'...

A Japanese kamikaze pilot flying his Mitsubishi A6M Zero plane into the hull of the USS Missouri at Okinawa in April 1945 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Museums, London.

Claiborne Fox Jackson, photograph of a painting by an unknown photographer, c. 1900. Claiborne Fox Jackson was the governor of Missouri during the American Civil War, and although Missouri was a neutral...

Major General Sterling Price, watercolour painting by an unknown artist, circa 1860 to circa 1869. At the beginning of the American Civil War, Sterling Price was given command of the Missouri State Guard...

The Immortal Ten were a group of abolitionists from Kansas Territory (where slavery was hotly contested) who slipped across the Missouri River into St. Joseph, Missouri (a slave state) and, on 23 July...

Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1837-1839. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

A nesting least tern pair in the sandbar habitat on the Missouri River below Gavins Point Dam. Yankton, South Dakota, USA. Photograph and caption by Robert Etzel. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library.