Place details
Place nameMissouri
Other namesMO
CountryUnited States
Latitude38
Longitude-98
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Inhabited by Osage & Missouri Indians when French arrived in 17th cen.; area went to Spain in 1762, back to France & then sold to USA in Louisiana Purchase of 1803; was a slave state, but did not secede from the Union in the Civil War.